jpackage current status

[Kevin Rushforth]

On 2/24/2020 12:31 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
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>> 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 ...
>>>
>> 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.

Good.

>> 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.

Unless that JRE's bin directory is in your PATH, I wouldn't expect it to 
find it.

-- Kevin