Question about FileManagers in Jigsaw.

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Wed Mar 14 09:11:35 PDT 2012



On 3/14/2012 8:50 AM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> On 03/14/2012 08:28 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>
>> For the minimal runtime at step 2 then do you see this as a minimal 
>> legacy or module runtime? Just thinking about legacy mode being 
>> implemented with a jdk.legacy module under the covers.
>
> Whatever necessary to support hybrid/bootstrap javac being able to run 
> and have access to the Jigsaw module resolver.

I was thinking that the minimal runtime at step 2 would support both 
legacy and module mode.   The legacy mode in this minimal runtime will 
probably be a special case that won't require jdk.legacy to be present 
like the modulepath runtime support for only jdk.base be present.

Mandy



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