RFR: 8023978: [TEST_BUG] launcher tests must exclude platforms without server vm

[Mandy Chung]

Hi Kumar,

On 11/14/2013 2:57 PM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review fixes to the launcher tests, which allows for missing
> server vm variant.
>
> All SE platforms have server vm, however  Embedded SE systems do
> not contain server, most of them have client, thus these
> tests needed to be compensated for that.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ksrini/8023978/webrev.0/
>

In ExecutionEnvironment.java, I understand the fix in line 251 and 257 
that address the bug reported.  However, I don't understand why doExec 
calls to launch javaCmd has to specify "-server" or "client".   The jdk 
should have a default VM and should the test use that?

TestHelper.java

  144         JAVA_JRE_LIB = new File((new File(JAVAHOME)).getParentFile(),
  145                         (isSDK) ? "jre/lib" : "lib").getAbsolutePath();

If JAVA_HOME is a JDK build (or JRE image), does this give you
an incorrect path?  I expect getParentFile() is not needed in that case.
This is copy-n-paste in many places.  Does the test require
to run on JDK image (not JDK build)?

  189     private static boolean haveVmVariant(String type) {
  190         if (isWindows) {
  191             File vmDir = new File(JAVA_JRE_BIN, type);
  192             File jvmFile = new File(vmDir, JVM_DLL);


jvm.dll should be under jre/bin/client or jre/bin/server as in other 
arch, right?

Mandy