Preview builds of Jigsaw available

[Chris Hegarty]

Alan,

Do we want to link these preview builds off the main project page? Or 
maybe I just can't find it.

-Chris

On 10/05/12 12:17, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> We now have a download page on java.net to host preview builds from Oracle:
>
> http://jdk8.java.net/jigsaw/
>
> This should be useful to those that want to try out Project Jigsaw
> and/or the current prototype of the modular JDK without needing to build
> it themselves.
>
> The preview builds come in two forms:
>
> - "JDK modules image". This is essentially equivalent to the normal JDK
> download except that everything is pre-installed as modules.
>
> - The other download choice is for those that wish to experiment with a
> ready-to-assemble JDK. The download contains an image that is a base
> runtime and also contains a directory of jmod packages that are the JDK
> modules. These modules can be installed with the included jmod tool as
> needed.
>
> At this time there isn't a download for Mac OS X, that should come soon
> (a small issue meant it didn't make the initial push). Another issue is
> that the Solaris downloads are the 32-bit binaries only for now.
>
> As these are preview builds they will of course be issues and bugs. The
> main issue that people will likely run into is that crypto is currently
> disabled. There are also several areas in the JDK that require API and
> implementation changes to work as modules and that will come in time.
>
> Thanks to Roger Yeung, David Katleman, Christine Lu from the Release
> Engineering team in Oracle for making these builds available. At this
> time we haven't decided how often to update the bundles so it will
> likely be "as needed" for now.
>
> -Alan.