jpackage current status

Michael Hall mik3hall at gmail.com
Mon Feb 24 20:31:37 UTC 2020



> On Feb 24, 2020, at 1:48 PM, Michael Hall <mik3hall at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 24, 2020, at 1:15 PM, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Since your ToolProvider-based program doesn't explicitly require jdk.incubator.jpackage, it won't be in the module graph. It should work fine if you run with:
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>> $ java --add-modules jdk.incubator.jpackage ...
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> I’m not understanding the module subtleties yet but yes that does work command line. Other than -add-modules into the runtime are there any special considerations for using it from an application?

Ah, the obvious. Same solution for application also works. I can programmatically invoke jpackage with this. 

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> I am still wondering for the application embedded runtime exec not finding linked native commands if this is expected not to work or is considered an issue?
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This remains a question for me. Should Runtime exec find the native commands included with an application embedded JRE? It currently doesn’t seem to on OS X.



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