RFR [9] 8139297: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class jdk.internal.jimage.ImageNativeSubstrate

[Alan Bateman]

On 09/10/2015 20:26, Jim Laskey (Oracle) wrote:
> "it should never attempt to use the native implementation”  This is confusing.  It’s attempting to see if a native library is present otherwise use java.  Is this the wrong approach?
>
>
jrtfs should use the native implementation when targeting the current 
runtime of course.

However, when the target runtime is different then the safest is to use 
the pure-java implementation. I think this will become more obvious when 
jrtfs is updated to work on JDK 9 but targeting a different JDK 9 build.

-Alan.