> "Instead, API is provided for reading the content of such image."

==> The format is not specified but APIs allow to read the content.

Dani



From:   Mike Milinkovich <[email protected]>
To:     [email protected]
Date:   27.10.2015 22:14
Subject:        Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Announcing JDK 9 support 
for Eclipse Neon
Sent by:        [email protected]



On 26/10/2015 6:49 PM, Stephan Herrmann wrote:

JDK 9 no longer ships the runtime libraries as a set of jars (rt.jar ...), 

but as jimage files, the technical format of which is not subject to 
standardization. 
Instead, API is provided for reading the content of such image. 
(Hence: "proprietary format"). 
The BETA feature provides support for working with these jimage files. 

So that causes a problem, right? If the jimage format is not spec'd as 
part of a JSR that means that we have to reverse engineer a 
GPL+CE-licensed implementation in order to emit jimage files. Do I 
understand that correctly?

Is this a topic that I should be raising concerns about at the JCP 
Executive Committee?

-- 
Mike Milinkovich
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