jmod request

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Mark Reinhold wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:07:37 -0800
>> From: jonathan.gibbons at sun.com
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>> jmod is currently not friendly to being invoked directly from Java code.
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> Well, to be fair, it wasn't designed for that kind of use, though we can
> of course change that.
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>> It would be nice to be able to avoid unnecessary execs when running jmod from
>> Java.  Here are some issues and corresponding suggestions:
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> All good ideas, but ... why do you need to do this?  Does javac need
> to invoke jmod directly?  Is there some other use case?
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> - Mark
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My specific need was for a test program running under jtreg, but this 
extends to any scripting being done in Java.  Even Ant support could be 
hacked up if there was a friendly Java API that could be invoked in the 
same JVM.  As it is, my samevm test program requires a couple of extra 
JVMs to be started up, one for each jmod.   And, such such numbers start 
adding up when you start running more tests.

-- Jon