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Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Fri May 25 07:59:09 PDT 2012


On 5/25/2012 7:15 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 25/05/2012 15:04, Mandy Chung wrote:
>>
>> I agree with Alan not to support jconsole -pluginpath with modules 
>> since VisualVM essentially is a replacement for it.   I'm not sure if 
>> jconsole should run in classpath mode though. I doubt if there are 
>> many jconsole plugins out there.  Can we launch jconsole in classpath 
>> mode only if -pluginpath is set?
> Not without special handling in the launcher, or else having jconsole 
> re-exec itself. I think the simplest thing is to just fail with 
> something like this:
>
> "-pluginpath not supported in module path, to use jconsole plugins 
> then re-run with -Xmode:legacy"
>
> or something along that lines.
>
That's one option I thought of as long as -Xmode:legacy (or similar 
option) is remained (I think possibly).

Mandy



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