There are no plans to support multi-release jars on the boot classpath.
> On May 31, 2016, at 2:12 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 31/05/2016 20:53, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I was looking over the specs for the multi release jars, and couldn't find
>> any information if this applied to jars on boot classpath as well (for
>> instance javaagents that add themselves there). All the docs and tasks
>> seems to focus on URLClassLoader, JarFile, etc.
>>
>> So will multi release jars pick the right class if on boot classloader (ie
>> loaded from null classloader/jvm)?
>>
> This is question for JEP 238 so including Steve Drach for the definite
> answer. To my knowledge, there is no support for this. In general then it
> wouldn't be common to deploy libraries with -Xbootclasspath/a. Yes, agents
> might want to do this but this is somewhat niche area.
>
> -Alan
