Re: Problem with multi-release jars, agents and the bootstrap class path

2016-10-14 Thread Alan Bateman
On 13/10/2016 21:43, Andrew Dinn wrote: : I am aware that the code I add to the bootstrap can only rely on a core subset of the JDK runtime classes being available. That ought not to be an issue -- I have deliberately kept the agent's footprint as small as possible because every time Byteman use

Re: Problem with multi-release jars, agents and the bootstrap class path

2016-10-13 Thread Andrew Dinn
On 13/10/16 18:27, Alan Bateman wrote: > What you see is deliberate. It wouldn't be impossible for the boot > loader to support MR JARs but it hardly seems worth the complexity. One > reason is that it's not a common way to deploy a general purpose > library. Even if it were then it would be proble

Re: Problem with multi-release jars, agents and the bootstrap class path

2016-10-13 Thread Alan Bateman
On 13/10/2016 17:40, Andrew Dinn wrote: : A Few Questions: Am I right that this is a deliberate choice of bootstrap loader behaviour? Or is there perhaps some other bug here? If this is a deliberate choice is there any possibility of reviewing it? Would it be particularly difficult to modif