On 21/01/2013 13:21, Alan Bateman wrote:
The optionally of JVM TI is clear in its specification, the status of
java.lang.management, or more specifically the -javaagent option is
less clear. The change proposed here is to make it very clear that
-javaagent is not required to be supported. The motive is small
environments where it should not be necessary to have a way to start
tool agents even though there may be command-line support.
Thanks,
-Alan
Just to say that there was additional feedback on the proposed wording.
Attached is what I propose to push now. I don't think this requires any
further reviews.
-Alan
diff --git a/src/share/classes/java/lang/instrument/package.html
b/src/share/classes/java/lang/instrument/package.html
--- a/src/share/classes/java/lang/instrument/package.html
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/lang/instrument/package.html
@@ -53,8 +53,10 @@
<h3>Command-Line Interface</h3>
<P>
-On implementations with a command-line interface, an agent is started by
-adding this option to the command-line:
+An implementation is not required to provide a way to start agents from the
+command-line interface. On implementations that do provide a way to
start agents
+from the command-line interface, an agent is started by adding this
option to
+the command-line:
<blockquote>
<code><b>-javaagent:</b></code><i>jarpath[</i><code><b>=</b></code><i>options]</i>
</blockquote>
