Kevin, This change goes hand in hand with the change in JDK-8165524 that will be pushed shortly. JNI is the only way to launch a modular application, so the Java Package’s launcher needs to be changed on Linux to launch this way (Windows has already been changed).
JIRA: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8147392 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~cbensen/JDK-8147392/webrev.00/ Chris
