Many thanks for the feedback Mark !

Rgds, Rory

> On 20 Jan 2015, at 11:57, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/01/2015 10:44, Rory O'Donnell wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>> 
>> Have you been able to test Tomcat with JDK 9 modular images, would
>> appreciate any feedback you might have ?
> 
> I did a quick test this morning. Currently, Tomcat fails to start
> because of the use of -Djava.endorsed.dirs
> 
> Once I remove that setting everything appears to be fine. Not I only did
> a quick smoke test with some of the WebSocket examples.
> 
> I think we can drop the use of -Djava.endorsed.dirs by default and add
> something to the docs that explains how to set it up via
> setenv.[sh|bat] if appropriate for the JVM being used. I'll follow that
> up in a separate thread on the Tomcat dev list.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
>> 
>> Rgds,Rory
>>> On 09/12/2014 08:36, Rory O'Donnell wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Mark/Mladen,
>>> 
>>> 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
> 
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