OK, but assuming I have no control over the user's runtime image, am I correct that programmatically starting the local JMX agent as I do now (without the Attach API) will no longer be possible in Java 9?
Ron Pressler paralleluniverse.co @puniverseco <https://twitter.com/puniverseco> on Twitter On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 21/07/2015 06:49, Ron Pressler wrote: > >> : >> >> 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. >> >> The attach API is intended for tools so this is why it used to be > tools.jar and why it wasn't in the JRE downloads. In our module graph then > it becomes its own module (named jdk.attach) so this means a tool using > this API can run on any run-time image that has the jdk.attach module > linked in. This should become clearer once the module system is in and > there is tooling to create run-time images with just the modules that you > want. > > -Alan >
