JDK 9 images are now modular with JDK 9 Early Access build 41

[Rory O'Donnell]

Hi Martijn - That would be great !
On 09/12/2014 10:23, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> Hi Rory,
>
> Thanks - I'm going to do some planning over the Xmas break and see how 
> we can sensibly start making the community aware and testing.
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
> On 9 December 2014 at 08:42, Rory O'Donnell <rory.odonnell at oracle.com 
> <mailto:rory.odonnell at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     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
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
>     Quality Engineering Manager
>     Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland
>
>

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Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland