No jrt-fs.jar in JRE?

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Mon Jun 27 18:37:17 UTC 2016


> On Jun 24, 2016, at 10:07 PM, Jayaprakash Arthanareeswaran <jarthana at in.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> My experiment to use the jrt-fs.jar from the JDK to load the system classes
> in JRE failed. May be I am not
> doing something right. Is that even supposed to work if I done the right
> way?

You said JRE.  If you mean the JRE created by the JDK build, i.e. $BUILD_OUTPUTDIR/images/jre, jrt-fs.jar is not present and hence you won’t be able to access its contents from another runtime image, as Alan explains in his previous reply [1].  This is an open issue (JDK-8153079).

Mandy
[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2016-May/007977.html



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