RFR: 8325207: Support out of order classpath in AppCDS.

[lingjun-cg]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 07:29:17 GMT, lingjun-cg <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> When a Java application runs with a wildcard classpath like this:
> `java -cp "lib/*"`
> JVM will expand "lib/*" to the actual jar list, but the order of the jar list may be different on different hosts, which depends on the underlying filesystem.
> 
> Dumping the AppCDS archive is usually done on a CI/CD environment, but using the shared archive is done on a production environment.
> If there are many jars with a complex build procedure,  ensure the same orders are difficult.
> 
> The patch first sorts the runtime classpath and dump classpath, then checks path again.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17704#issuecomment-1996225874