> Less brief background. > I’ve installed the java 9 ea releases. A while back for the jdk, today the > jre as well.
Be careful with those... 9 is undergoing a lot of changes so results may vary between ea releases. I highly recommend sticking with JDK 8 releases for now, especially for production code. Moving forward and investigating modularity is the only reason I'd recommend looking at 9 right now. > I was going to work on some application code I haven’t been into for a while. > I noticed some things not working, one thought was conflicts between the jre > version and jdk. The application has some tools related functionality so it > did some stuff with ClassLoaders to include tools.jar from the jdk. > So I downloaded the JRE as well. Same problems. > So now I’d like to check against a java 8 version of the application since > the functionality in 9 just might not be there yet. The runtime (and tools, etc.) in 9 is bundled in modular images instead of jars now. -DrD-
