On 21/07/2015 06:49, Ron Pressler wrote:
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That's really good (esp. startLocalManagementAgent), but does it
require tools.jar to be available, which means a JDK, rather than JRE
installation? VMSupport and Agent are available on any JRE. Perhaps
com.sun.tools.attach should be included in the JRE, too.
The attach API is intended for tools so this is why it used to be
tools.jar and why it wasn't in the JRE downloads. In our module graph
then it becomes its own module (named jdk.attach) so this means a tool
using this API can run on any run-time image that has the jdk.attach
module linked in. This should become clearer once the module system is
in and there is tooling to create run-time images with just the modules
that you want.
-Alan
