RFR: JDK-8233594: create a new option --bind-servces to pass on to jlink

[Alan Bateman]

On 06/11/2019 14:01, Michael Paus wrote:
>
> The --suggest-providers option would be more useful if one could limit 
> it to the providers that can actually be used by my code, i.e.
> a call like
>
> jlink --add-modules java.base --suggest-providers
>
> should only return the providers which can be reached by java.base. Or 
> did I miss something here?
>
java.base is a prolific user of services. Many standard and JDK-specific 
modules provide implementations of services that are used by java.base. 
Those modules in turn make use of additional services. So it's working 
as intended. The other form of --suggest-providers allows you to specify 
the service interface so that you can fine tune the additional providers 
to add to the run-time image. If you change the above to 
`--suggest-providers java.security.Provider` then you'll see the list of 
modules provide implementations of Security. You should see the 
jdk.crypto.ec module in that list.

-Alan