Please review: VM side of Jigsaw classpath mode support

[Paul Sandoz]

Hi David,

On Aug 24, 2012, at 2:47 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Karen,
> 
> On 24/08/2012 6:14 AM, Karen Kinnear wrote:
>> The VM side of this webrev is at:
>>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~acorn/vm.classpath/webrev/
> 
> I gave this a quick look over for curiosity. I didn't see anything obviously "strange".
> 
> One query though. This path format:
> 
> "%/lib/modules/jdk.base";
> 
> is used to detect a modular runtime but I thought that the actual names of the directories used for a module library were configurable when jmod is used to create it?
> 

I presume it is assuming there is an installation of a Java runtime, which i guess there has to be, where "%/lib/modules" is the location of the module library of that installation, and the directory underneath, "jdk.base", is an internal detail to the module library implementation.

Paul.