RFR: 8156499 Update jlink to support creating images with modules that are packaged as multi-release JARs

Steve Drach steve.drach at oracle.com
Mon Aug 8 16:34:43 UTC 2016


> On Aug 8, 2016, at 1:57 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 06/08/2016 00:43, Steve Drach wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Please review this changset that makes jlink multi-release jar aware.
>> 
>> issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156499 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156499>
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sdrach/8156499/webrev.00/index.html <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sdrach/8156499/webrev.00/index.html>
>> 
> Are you sure that this is right? I ask because it looks like it appears to ignore all resources in the JAR file that don't start with META-INF/versions/<N>.

Back to the old drawing board ;-)

> The other thing is that it is uses jarFile.version() which isn't right. At some point (maybe a future patch) then it need to be using the version of java.base.

Is there a way to determine the version of java.base?

> 
> Also I assume the test needs work so that it passes when run on an exploded image.

The issue has to do with multi-release jar files.  How do exploded images relate to multi-release jar files.

> 
> -Alan



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