I’m curious how this relates to the -m or —module option. I had though it looked like the module equivalent of the -jar option.
Cheers, Scott > On Nov 23, 2018, at 12:41 PM, Richard Hillegas <rhille...@comcast.net> wrote: > > 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 >> >
