Re: How should a build/launch tool best make use of modules?

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: > > The module system isn't suggesting any solutions, it is instead leaving > this problem to the build tools and containers. > > Then let me rephrase the question :) The current practice for build tools to solve the

Re: Static layer descriptors

... Alternatively, instead of defining a new file format, is it possible for a Java agent to set up layers with the reflective API before the application starts? In either case, the build tool could generate the layers file/agent. Ron Ron Pressler paralleluniverse.co @puniverseco <ht

Re: JMX agents and Jigsaw

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Alan Bateman alan.bate...@oracle.com wrote: On 24/07/2015 10:12, Ron Pressler wrote: OK, but assuming I have no control over the user's runtime image, am I correct that programmatically starting the local JMX agent as I do now (without the Attach API

JMX agents and Jigsaw

Hi. I need to start a local JMX agent on the current JVM and obtain its secret address; I cannot rely on tools.jar being present so I can't use the attach mechanism. Currently, I do this with sun.management.Agent.agentmain and sun.misc.VMSupport.getAgentProperties because that's the only way to

Re: JMX agents and Jigsaw

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Alan Bateman alan.bate...@oracle.com wrote: The attach API (meaning com.sun.tools.attach) is a JDK-specific/supported API. It should continue to work as it does now in JDK 9. Even better, there is a new method named startLocalManagementAgent that starts a local