Project Jigsaw: Early-Access Builds available on jdk9.java.net/jigsaw

[Alan Bateman]

On 10/09/2015 22:21, Mani Sarkar wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thanks for the detailed explanation and it would be great to find this 
> in your docs - I will link to it.
>
> The reasons I understood, jimage might go away, as I read this 
> https://bugs.*openjdk*.java.net/browse/JDK-8049369 
> <http://java.net/browse/JDK-8049369>.
>
Yeah, it is confusing. That JBS issue tracked the creation of temporary 
image builder tool to use in JDK 9 until we had jlink. In jigsaw/jake 
then this image building tool has been removed and the build changed to 
create the run-time images with jlink. The Dependences section of JEP 
261 has a few words on this.

-Alan.