Thanks, Alan.
On 11/23/18 12:06 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 22/11/2018 19:27, Richard Hillegas wrote:
Can I scribble something in a jar file manifest which will cause
"java -jar" to boot with a modulepath rather than a classpath? I do
not see any support for a modulepath attribute in the Java 9 jar file
documentation at
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/specs/jar/jar.html. My sense is
that the -jar option commits the JVM to using a classpath.
There is no support for executable modular JARs at this time. It's
part of a bigger topic that is tracked as #MultiModuleExecutableJARs.
Some prototypes during JDK 9 but the decision at the time was to defer
it to some future effort. So when you run with `java -jar` then it
puts the JAR file on the class path (exactly as it did in all previous
releases).
-Alan
