Project Jigsaw: Early-Access Builds available on jdk9.java.net/jigsaw

[Mani Sarkar]

Thats great Rory, thanks for the heads up - I have shared it with the
respective communities.

Cheers.
Mani

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Rory O'Donnell <rory.odonnell at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> Early-access builds of JDK 9 with Project Jigsaw are available for
> download at jdk9.java.net/jigsaw <http://jdk9.java.net/jigsaw>.
>
> The EA builds contain the latest prototype implementation of JSR 376 <
> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec>, the Java Platform Module
> System,
> as well as that of the JDK-specific APIs and tools described in JEP 261 <
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/261>.
>
> If you'd like to try out the EA builds, by far the most helpful things you
> can do are:
>
>  *
>
>    Try to run existing applications, without change, on these builds to
>    see whether the module system, or the modularization of the
>    platform, breaks your code or identifies code that depends upon
>    JDK-internal APIs or other unspecified aspects of the platform.
>
>  *
>
>    Experiment with the module system itself, perhaps by following the
>    quick start guide
>    <http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/quick-start>, and start
>    thinking about how to migrate existing libraries and application
>    components to modules. We hope to publish some specific migration
>    tips shortly.
>
> Please send usage questions and experience reports to the jigsaw-dev <
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/jigsaw-dev> list. Specific
> suggestions about the design of the module system should be sent to the JSR
> 376 Expert Group's comments list <mailto:
> jpms-spec-comments at openjdk.java.net>.
>
> For more information please seen Mark Reinhold's mail [1]
>
> Rgds,Rory
>
> [1]
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2015-September/004480.html
>
> --
> Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
> Quality Engineering Manager
> Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland
>
>


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