java.mini? was: Dependency leaks and embedded Java

[Dalibor Topic]

On 10/23/12 9:10 AM, Jaroslav Tulach wrote:
> This is my observation as well. A Throwable has now a direct dependency on 
> ArrayList (as of JDK7)! That really does not make the transitive closure of 
> Object smaller.

Not necessarily. While the JDK 7 implementation uses ArrayList internally, 
it does not occur in the public API of Throwable. So you could write Throwable
without it in one way or another if you had to.

> However for certain environments it is clearly to big. Can't jigsaw also define 
> the smallest possible profile (e.g. with classes that are directly needed 
> during compilation by Javac like String, StringBuilder, Enum, Throwable)?

That would be implementation-specific by definition, as per ArrayList example above.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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