> On Jan 15, 2019, at 11:43 AM, Michael Hall <mik3h...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Jan 15, 2019, at 10:35 AM, Andy Herrick <andy.herr...@oracle.com> wrote: >> On 1/15/2019 11:25 AM, Michael Hall wrote: >>>> On Jan 15, 2019, at 10:19 AM, Andy Herrick <andy.herr...@oracle.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 1/15/2019 11:04 AM, Michael Hall wrote: >>>>> java -version >>>>> openjdk version "12-internal" 2019-03-19 >>>>> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 12-internal+0-jdk12-jpackage.7) >>>>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 12-internal+0-jdk12-jpackage.7, mixed >>>>> mode, sharing) >>>> This is the first jpackage EA build that was based on JDK12. >>>> The second jpackage EA build is based on JDK13. (as will be any subsequent >>>> jpackage EA builds). >>>> >>>> Real JDK12 builds will not have jpackage. Even normal JDK13 builds will >>>> not have jpackage till the JEP is targeted and the sandbox code is then >>>> integrated into the mainline JDK. >>> Yes, I had installed that version as well. The first EA. >>> So removing the jdk-13 fell back to that one. >>> >>> ~/Documents/jdk-13.jdk/Contents/home/bin/jpackage --version >>> jpackage version 13-internal >>> >>> Shows the second EA jpackage can be explicitly invoked against a current >>> jdk-12. But I understand it isn’t supported that way so why normally do it? >> >> Actually, once jpackage is invoked the path is not used. jpackage itself >> will run with the jre it comes with. Without -- runtime-image specified, >> jpackage will package the app with runtime image it comes with. If >> --runtime-image is specified, it will package the app with the specified >> runtime. >> > Thats interesting too. How does it manage to do that, to run with the JRE > it’s packaged with if the command is invoked command line by absolute path?
I believe that is how all the commands in the bin folder of the JDK work - intentionally. > If nothing has been done to make the wrapping JDK an available JRE/JDK? Not > in JavaVirtualMachines, no JAVA_HOME set, no JRE set up at all. You are explicitly invoking commands of that JDK. What would you expect if you ran ‘~/Documents/jdk-13.jdk/Contents/home/bin/java’ ? Regards, Scott
