Hi Alan, Thanks - I've passed that onto folks - some of us will give that a go on the OpenJDK hackday we're running in London tomorrow.
Cheers, Martijn On 29 November 2013 09:33, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 29/11/2013 08:19, Martijn Verburg wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Just had a few queries from folks who were keen to try the various >> profile builds but weren't capable of producing them themselves. >> >> Is this something that could be produced for the early access binaries >> for people to test? >> >> If folks are able to build the JDK on Linux then "make profiles" will > create images for each of the Compact Profiles. So it's not too hard (but I > understand that some people prefer to download a binary). > > I don't know of any plans for Oracle to do EA binaries on java.net(Oracle do > have embedded ports and tooling but this is beyond what is in > OpenJDK and so this is really commercial bits). > > If you manage to get profiles building and get to try out some > applications then please let us know. The hard part (I think) is getting > over the assumption that anything that runs on the JRE today should run on > a subset. This is where the javac -profile option is useful to ensure that > the code can be compiled for the target profile. Also the jdeps tool to > looking at the dependencies is also very useful (and it has a -profile > option so you can quickly see what the minimum profile required is). > > -Alan > > > >
