On 19 May 2017 at 11:22, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > One thing that jlink > could do is emit a warning that the resulting run-time image doesn't have > the management and instrumentation features, might that be the right > balance.
As a users of those kind of agents, and as an agent vendor myself (though not one I expect to be used often with jlink'ed images - but how app servers in the future are distributed remains to be seen) I get where Rafael is coming from. I also agree it will come to a surprise to many, that if suddenly the distributed image from a vendor, now created by jlink, no longer included the capability of attaching agents! Having serviceability/agent support included by default makes sense to me, but I also get the reverse argument, that you should be able to create a minimalvm/java.base image, if so desired. I most definitely think, that jlink should at least emit a warning, if the image it's generating does not include those features, and also have the warning include information how to add these features. A dedicated option for jlink to explicitly enable/disable serviceability/agent modules could be nice for that. /Michael
