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

[Alan Bateman]

On 08/08/2016 17:34, Steve Drach wrote:
> :
> Back to the old drawing board ;-)
I think we can do this in phases, starting out with jlink picking up the 
runtime version and using that to select the resources from the modular 
JAR would be a good start. At some point we will have an update module 
path implementation that better supports link time, in which case you 
can find java.base and then use its version (as opposed to the runtime 
version) when finding modules.


> :
> The issue has to do with multi-release jar files.  How do exploded images relate to multi-release jar files.
>
>
If you look at the other jlink tests then you'll see that they skip 
silently when on an exploded image (no packaged modules, meaning no JMOD 
files).

-Alan