Preview builds of Jigsaw available

[Alan Bateman]

On 10/05/2012 13:24, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Great stuff.
>
>> *JDK base image + jmod packages*: This download contains a minimal 
>> "base" runtime and a directory of jmod packages with the JDK modules. 
>> The jmod packages can be installed directly via the "jmod install" 
>> command, or added to a file or http based module repository and 
>> installed automatically when required.
>
> Any example on how to do the last part of the above?
We should create a web page with instructions on how to get going (in 
addition to the existing Quick Start page).

In brief, assuming you have a http server to serve up a module 
repository then the tool to create and manage the module repository is 
jrepo. So on the "server" side then you create and populate a module 
repository with:

$ jrepo myrepo create
$ jrepo myrepo add jigsaw-pkgs/jmod/*.jmod


On the client/device side you start with jre-base-image and use jmod to 
associate the module library with the module repository on the http 
server, eg:

$ jmod add-repo http://server/myrepo

Once you've got this association setup then it means that "jmod install" 
can download and install from the module repository, including resolving 
prerequisites.

There is also support for repositories on the file system (add-repo 
allows you to specify a file path or file URL), which is useful for 
testing purposes.

-Alan