Review Request: 8074428, 8074429, 8074430 jdk.pack200, jdk.jartool, jdk.policytool modules

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Mar 5 08:23:50 UTC 2015


On 05/03/2015 02:55, Wang Weijun wrote:
> - Move keytool to jdk.security.util, it's now in java.base but keytool is not part of Java SE spec (Of course, if that means keytool will be in JDK instead of JRE please stop. But will there will the name difference anymore? I am thinking of an installer like cygwin that you can choose anything except that java.base is checked grayed).
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The reason that keytool is in java.base is so that keys and certificates 
can be managed on a small runtime. It's the same reason that it is in 
our compact1 builds too. I wasn't aware of JDK-8058778 but it can't 
result in java.base exporting a JDK-specific API.

-Alan


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