Need help testing the EA builds

[Mandy Chung]

> On Mar 8, 2016, at 6:08 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/03/2016 07:45, Volker Simonis wrote:
>> :
>> OK, that would be fine. This problem isn't very urgent but it would be
>> good if we could resolve it before the big jake integration into
>> jdk9-dev.
>> 
>> 
> In order, then my preferences for resolving this are:
> 
> 1. Compete the tool separation, meaning JDK-8059035.
> 
> 2. Change these tools to use services so that the SA backend is a service provider.
> 

#2 seems to be trivial and I quickly hack up a patch:
   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jigsaw/webrevs/8059035/webrev.00/

This would need Dmitry and others to help do verification.

Mandy

> 3. Build-time solution.
> 
> 4. Drop the dependency but compile the launchers for the tools on platforms that support SA with -addmods jdk.hotspot.agent or ALL-SYSTEM.
> 
> I agree we need to address this soon.
> 
> -Alan.