Support for jrt-fs.jar in JDK 7 would be very helpful in allowing FindBugs to run under Java 9

[Dalibor Topic]

On 11/16/14 6:26 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> I could imagine this needing to be well bedded down and be in shipping 7u and 8u releases for a significant period before tools would be confident to remove older code that directly accesses rt.jar etc.

Relevant regarding 7u: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2014-January/008242.html .

So I'd tend to agree that separate availability would be a better option at this point in time of JDK 7u releases.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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