Multi-Release JAR runtime support

[Paul Sandoz]

> On 19 Apr 2016, at 14:11, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On 19 Apr 2016, at 09:46, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com <mailto:Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>> On 19/04/2016 02:49, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote:
>>> :
>>> 
>>> But the unexpected part is that JRE 9, either classical or jigsaw, don't take
>>> advantage of the MR JAR: is this really expected, or did I do something wrong?
>> Hervé - can you dump the manifest? It's not clear from your mail that it has the Multi-Release attribute.
>> 
> 
> Plus what build of JDK 9 are you using?
> 
> JDK 9 EA 114 has Mr.Jar integrated.
> 
>   https://jdk9.java.net/download/ <https://jdk9.java.net/download/>
> 

Sent too soon, i see you are using b114 already:

  9-ea+114-2016-04-15-162029.javare.4859.nc

Cab you check if you have:

  Multi-Release: true

in your manifest?

Paul.

> There are no current plans to back port the runtime parts to a Java 8 update release.
> 
> Paul.