-jar option and the modulepath

[Richard Hillegas]

Thanks, Alan.

On 11/23/18 12:06 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 22/11/2018 19:27, Richard Hillegas wrote:
>> Can I scribble something in a jar file manifest which will cause 
>> "java -jar" to boot with a modulepath rather than a classpath? I do 
>> not see any support for a modulepath attribute in the Java 9 jar file 
>> documentation at 
>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/specs/jar/jar.html. My sense is 
>> that the -jar option commits the JVM to using a classpath.
> There is no support for executable modular JARs at this time. It's 
> part of a bigger topic that is tracked as #MultiModuleExecutableJARs. 
> Some prototypes during JDK 9 but the decision at the time was to defer 
> it to some future effort. So when you run with `java -jar` then it 
> puts the JAR file on the class path (exactly as it did in all previous 
> releases).
>
> -Alan
>