Review Request 8074432: Move jdeps to jdk.compiler module

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed May 27 14:26:55 UTC 2015



On 27/05/2015 07:00, Mandy Chung wrote:
> We discussed this offline and revised the proposal to group javap and classfile library together with jdeps in jdk.jdeps module for static analysis tools to live.  The jdk.compiler module will contain the compiler and a couple of small tools.  Moving out javap and classfile library save about 1.2M uncompressed from jdk.compiler (~11%).
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> The module is named after the primary tool, jdeps in this case.  Tools are in JAVA_HOME/bin directory of idk image and so which module jdeps and javap are transparent in the idk image.
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> Revised webrev:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8074432/webrev.01/
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>
The internal classfile API, javap and jdeps in the jdk.jdeps module 
looks good to me.

-Alan.



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