14 RFR (M) 8232080: jlink plugins for vendor information and run-time options

[Alan Bateman]

On 22/10/2019 04:22, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> RFE: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8232080
> CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8232753
> Webrev: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/rev/8232080/
I've read through the code for the new jlink plugins and the changes to 
VersionProps and it looks good.

An alternative for VersionProps would have been to generate a helper 
class at link time rather than extending the static initilizer to set 
the fields. That would allow the VENDOR* fields to be final (but I don't 
think it makes too much difference and it may be a bit more complicated 
due to having 4 plugins contributing code).

The need for a plugin per CLI option may be motivation to explore (in 
the future) having a single plugin expose multiple options.

-Alan