Hi all, Are there any plans for making the jlink Plug-in API public any time soon, perhaps for JDK 17?
I think the ability to implement custom plug-ins that are run at linking time would open up quite a few interesting opportunities, e.g. - removing unused members and obfuscation - adding resources like annotation indexes for the whole image - verifying that exported and required API methods match (avoiding NoSuchMethodErrors due to adding incompatible module versions to an image) The latter would be interesting in particular for monolithic applications built jointly by multiple teams, avoiding the need to recompile the entire application if only a single module changed, while still having fidelity that APIs would match. Thanks, --Gunnar
