VirtualMachine in tools.jar

[Henri Tremblay]

Does the absence of answer means that this subject was never raised before?

Or that it is considered of no interest?

On 21 August 2015 at 12:34, Henri Tremblay <henri.tremblay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't know if that was discussed before. If yes, I'm sorry to be
> redundant.
>
> I had the problem yesterday while playing with JMX and thought it could be
> of interest.
>
> Are there any plans to move some code from tools.jar to the JDK?
>
> Specifically, I'm thinking about the VirtualMachine object. When
> connecting with JMX, you can connect in remote using the JDK but if you
> want to connect using the PID, it seems that you absolutely need tools.jar.
>
> I find this discrepancy quite odd and would like to have your thoughts
> about that.
>
> Thanks
> Henri
>