RFR 8043138: Attach API should not require jvmstat rmi protocol

[Staffan Larsen]

> On 24 nov. 2015, at 17:03, Jaroslav Bachorik <jaroslav.bachorik at oracle.com> wrote:
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> Please, review the following change
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> Issue : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8043138
> Webrevs:
> * top level: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8043138/webrev.00/top
> * jdk: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8043138/webrev.00/jdk
> 
> This patch splits up the jdk.jvmstat module to jdk.jvmstat and jdk.jvmstat.rmi to make the basic jvmstat functionality available without requiring dependencies on RMI.
> 
> The split is pretty straightforward - all the RMI dependent implementation is moved to the new module as well as 'jstatd' implementation.
> 
> The change requires changes in the makefile (for merging META-INF/services resources from jdk.jvmstat and jdk.jvmstat.rmi) and therefore I am posting this request also to the build-dev mailing list.

Can you explain what the makefile is doing? Why do we need to merge these files?

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> Thanks,
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> -JB-