Review Request JDK-8152721: Java Web Start splash mechanism is not working in JDK9

[Mandy Chung]

> On May 27, 2016, at 9:54 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 28/05/2016 05:29, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8152721/webrev.00/
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>> The launcher does not handle the new options with whitespace separated arguments properly.  This patch applies that consistently in java.c  I leave arg.c as is that Kumar/Henry can consider cleanup in the future.
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> The new options are handled correctly on the command, I think it's just the JDK internal JLI_Launch entry point where this was missed. The patch looks okay, I just wonder if there is there are any tests that could use this entry point.

SelectVersion is called for launching any application.  It processes -splash option separately from the launcher argument processing.  To hit this bug, it will need to launch with the new module-system option together with -splash.  I have verified with my modified version of a client test verifying the -splash option.

I prefer to file a JBS issue for the client team to create a test for this if that’s okay with you.

Mandy