Jigsaw prototype, take 2

[Neil Bartlett]

And yet, JEP 161 addresses the most pressing requirement from Java
developers: a smaller, more embeddable JRE.

Furthermore it actually seems to be deliverable within a reasonable
time scale (JDK8) rather than a continually slipping, indeterminate
future.

- Neil

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:35 PM,  <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:
> 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