jpackage current status

[Michael Hall]

> On Feb 24, 2020, at 11:16 AM, Michael Hall <mik3hall at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 24, 2020, at 11:12 AM, Andy Herrick <andy.herrick at oracle.com <mailto:andy.herrick at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>> We have no problem invoking jpackage through the tool provider interface in all of our test cases.
>> 
>> In previous emails you described using a hybrid jdk13/jdk14 jdk. Can you explain what exactly you are using ?
>> 
>> /Andy
> 
> I was wondering what you had for tests. 
> Currently I have the latest ea or release candidate installed. I temporarily had a jdk13 installed due to issues with Eclipse when I switched to that. 
> 
> java -version
> openjdk version "14" 2020-03-17
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 14+36-1461)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14+36-1461, mixed mode, sharing)

Mac OS 10.14.6
On OS X you install the JDK by adding it to the JavaVirtualMachines directory. 

ls -l /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 mjh  wheel   96 Dec 14  2018 jdk-11.0.1.jdk
drwxr-xr-x  4 mjh  wheel  128 Dec 15  2018 jdk-12.jdk
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 mjh  wheel   96 Apr 19  2019 jdk-13.jdk
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 mjh  staff   96 Feb  6 15:49 jdk-14.jdk
drwxr-xr-x  3 mjh  wheel   96 Sep 22  2017 jdk-9.jdk
drwxr-xr-x  3 mjh  wheel   96 May 16  2017 jdk1.8.0_131.jdk


Eclipse is now configured to use the jdk-13
Default should be the latest, now the jdk-14.

/usr/libexec/java_home
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-14.jdk/Contents/Home