RFR 8150681 Update JAR specification for multi-release jar files

Sean Mullan sean.mullan at oracle.com
Thu May 4 14:28:09 UTC 2017


Couple of typos on a quick review:

55: s/the the/the/
129-130: s/the exactly/exactly the/
144: fukes -> files?

--Sean

On 5/3/17 5:44 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please review an update to the JAR “specification” (in the loose sense of the term):
>
> - first, it has been moved from a closed repository into the idk repository (same shared location as the recently introduced serialisation specification) and converted to markdown:
>
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8150681-jar-spec-markdown/webrev/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8150681-jar-spec-markdown/webrev/>
>
> (This also includes a new attribute Launcher-Agent-Class, a Jigsaw related change to better support Java agents.)
>
> For comparison, the HTML version online is here:
>
>   http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/technotes/guides/jar/jar.html <http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/technotes/guides/jar/jar.html>
>
> - second i have added sections on multi-release JAR files:
>
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8150681-jar-spec-markdown-with-mr-jar/webrev/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8150681-jar-spec-markdown-with-mr-jar/webrev/>
>
> this is based against the first patch so the changes can be easily viewed.
>
>
> I expect some further editing of this specification to add further links to module related stuff and tidy up existing links to tools etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul.
>
>


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