module/bootclass troubles with jdk9

[Martin Buchholz]

Sounds good!

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
wrote:

> On 03/02/2015 23:40, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>
>> Maybe "jrt" could be generalized.  Instead of simply "the" java run time
>> of
>> the current jdk, it could additionally be a function jrt(jredir) that
>> somehow gives you the runtime classes of any jre, in a way that javac can
>> understand.
>>
> This is how we want jrtfs to work eventually. If you specify a java.home
> (encoded in the jrt URI or in the env specified to newFileSystem) then it
> will load and forward to the provider that is locates in the target
> runtime's jrt-fs.jar. We'll get there but needs a number of other issues
> get sorted out first.
>
> -Alan.
>