RFR - 8132734: java.util.jar.* changes to support multi-release jar files

[Alan Bateman]

On 02/10/2015 15:52, Steve Drach wrote :
> To elaborate a bit, the implementation is quite straight forward.  ZipFileSystem builds an Inode tree on open.  That tree is implemented as a Map<Inode,Inode>.  For regular zip/jar files both the key and the value are the same Inode.  For multi-release jar files the value is the Inode of the appropriate versioned entry.  Configuration is through the Map<String,?> env parameter to the FileSystems.newFileSystem parameter.
It sounds like you have a handle on this, the main thing is that by 
default it's just a file system, irrespective of whether 
META-INF/versions exists or not. If there is configuration specified via 
the env map then it can work multi-versioned, it just can't be the 
default because the file system provider has no knowledge as to how the 
API is being used.

-Alan