On 22/10/2014 21:04, Ivan St. Ivanov wrote:
Hello again,
I'd like to ping you again. Our conference is approaching, we want to show
something real, but we are not sure what. :)
Hello Ivan,
Do you build OpenJDK? Just wondering if you are able to build the
jigsaw/m2 forest? The jigsaw/m2 forest is where we are currently working
to modularize the structure of the binary images created by build. The
modular image was cited in JEP 200 and will have its own JEP shortly.
There is lots to talk about there as changing the layout of the binary
images is going to be somewhat disruptive. We know there is a lot of
code and scripts that depend on the current layout or directly access
rt.jar or tools.jar. In case it's not clear then the proposal is to do
away with rt.jar and tools.jar and introduce a new container format for
the modules, classes and resources that are linked into the image. This
new container format will change over time and is not intended to be
accessed directly. We hope to make EA builds available soon after the
JEP is published so that's another way to try this out for those that
don't build OpenJDK.
-Alan.
