RFR: 8352044: Add --with-import-jvms to configure

Wed Mar 19 12:48:08 UTC 2025

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:11:05 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> For the folks targeting embedded/small environments then I think the right thing is to publish the packaged modules (JMOD files) for the target platform and then use `jlink` to create the run-image with the right VM + small set of modules that are appropriate for the target environment.

Just to make sure I'm understanding you correctly. Are you proposing that instead of building a single JDK distribution with multiple JVMs, they would build a separate JDK for each alternative JVM configuration and publish java.base.jmod from each of them for end users to pick from when generating their run-images?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24063#issuecomment-2736507794