On 25/06/2016 06:07, Jayaprakash Arthanareeswaran wrote:
:
I just downloaded the latest JDK and found the modules file along with
jmod/*.jmod. Is this to remain?
My experiment to use the jrt-fs.jar from the JDK to load the system
classes in JRE failed. May be I am not
doing something right. Is that even supposed to work if I done the
right way?
The .jmod files that you see in the JDK download are the packaged
modules. If you aren't doing anything with jlink then you should ignore
this directory.
I think your question is about the JRE download as it does not have
jrt-fs.jar and so cannot be targeted by a tool running on JDK 8 or JDK
9. This is JDK-8153079 [1] where the main question is whether the JRE
and other runtime images created by jlink should have jrt-fs.jar so that
they can be targeted by tools (`javac -system ...` for example). This is
something that needs to be examined soon. I assume you don't have any
issues with the JDK download as it has jrt-fs.jar and so Eclipse running
on JDK 8 or JDK 9 should not have any issues targeting a JDK 9 build -
is that right?
-Alan
[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8153079
