Hi Alan,
Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote on 05/30/2016 12:47:17 PM:
> From: Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com>
> To: Jayaprakash Arthanareeswaran/India/IBM@IBMIN, jigsaw-dev
> <jigsaw-dev@openjdk.java.net>
> Date: 05/30/2016 12:47 PM
> Subject: Re: No jrt-fs.jar in JRE?
>
> If you really really need some way to distinguish a JRE and JDK then
> checking if the jdk.compiler module is in the list of module names. This
> is very crude of course because you can use jlink to create a custom
> runtime image that has the jdk.compiler module.
This is not something we need, although that is a useful information.
Thanks!
> I'm curious what you mean by "(b) to get the class loader" as there is
> no information to know which modules are mapped to which class loaders.
Sorry it wasn't clear. What I really meant was to be able to create a
URLClassLoader
to load from jrt-fs.jar and use the JRT FileSystem API. Without the
jrt-fs.jar, what
are our options?
Regards,
Jay
