[wildfly-dev] JDK 9 images are now modular with JDK 9 Early Access build 41

Tomaž Cerar tomaz.cerar at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 06:57:45 EST 2014


Hey Rory,

I downloaded b41 and ran wildfly-core testsuite with it
http://teamcity.cafe-babe.org/viewLog.html?buildId=10518&buildTypeId=WildFly_WildflyCore_Build&tab=buildResultsDiv

and it looks great, two tests failing need fixing on our side to account
for no more PermGen in Sun/Oracle jdk.

--
tomaz

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Rory O'Donnell <rory.odonnell at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi Jason/Tomaz,
>
>
> The initial changesets for JEP 220: Modular Run-Time Images [1] are
> available
> with JDK 9 early-access build 41 [2].
>
> To summarize (please see the JEP for details):
>
>     - The "jre" subdirectory is no longer present in JDK images.
>
>     - The user-editable configuration files in the "lib" subdirectory
>        have been moved to the new "conf" directory.
>
>     - The endorsed-standards override mechanism has been removed.
>
>     - The extension mechanism has been removed.
>
>     - rt.jar, tools.jar, and dt.jar have been removed.
>
>     - A new URI scheme for naming stored modules, classes, and resources
>        has been defined.
>
>     - For tools that previously accessed rt.jar directly, a built-in NIO
>        file-system provider has been defined to provide access to the class
>        and resource files within a run-time image.
>
> More details are available at Mark Reinhold's latest blog entry [3]
>
> Rgds, Rory
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/220
> [2] https://jdk9.java.net/download/
> [3] http://mreinhold.org/blog/jigsaw-modular-images
>
>
>
> --
> Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
> Quality Engineering Manager
> Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland
>
>
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