Jigsaw prototype, take 2

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2013/8/30 0:35 -0700, david.bosschaert at gmail.com:
> My understanding is that JEP 161 (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/161) already
> addresses many requirements for modularizing the Java runtime. JEP 161
> should address the concerns around creating a scalable platform and improve
> performance.
> 
> I would like to understand what requirements in addition to JEP 161 this
> prototype aims to address.

JEP 161 is an interim solution to the problem of scaling the platform.
It "modularizes" the platform in only the crudest sense, defining just
three modules.  If an application uses just one API from the largest
profile and otherwise requires only the smallest profile then there is
no choice but to use an implementation of the largest profile.

As to performance, JEP 161 doesn't address that at all.  The kinds of
performance improvements we've always aimed to enable with Jigsaw
involve transforming module content during installation.

- Mark