On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
The attach API (meaning com.sun.tools.attach) is a JDK-specific/supported > API. It should continue to work as it does now in JDK 9. Even better, there > is a new method named startLocalManagementAgent that starts a local JMX > agent and returns the connector service address. This avoids the hack that > was loading managenent-agent.jar in past releases. That's really good (esp. startLocalManagementAgent), but does it require tools.jar to be available, which means a JDK, rather than JRE installation? VMSupport and Agent are available on any JRE. Perhaps com.sun.tools.attach should be included in the JRE, too. Ron
