RFR: JDK-8200132: Remove jre images and bundles

[Alan Bateman]

On 04/06/2018 20:45, Bob Vandette wrote:
> If we do this, shouldn’t we provide an aggregator module to allow 
> developers to
> easily create a Java runtime with the same list of modules?  AFAIK, 
> this doesn’t exists.
> The java.se <http://java.se> module is not the same.  It’s missing 
> many modules.
>
That creates an attractive nuisance in that developers would end 
requiring it (with `requires) and it's not a "platform" or a module that 
someone should be depending on.  As I recall, that was part of the 
reason why the proposed "jdk.jre" aggregator was dropped during the JDK 
9 development. It may be something for the Packaging Tool (draft JEP 
JDK-8200758). I could imagine the build for the packaging tool 
generating a list of modules that the tool uses when creating packages 
for end-user applications.

-Alan