Jigsaw + Web Start

[Alan Bateman]

On 29/03/2016 10:10, Robert Gibson wrote:
> Hi all,
> We have a number of applications launched over Web Start. Unfortunately none of them work with the latest JDK build, it looks like the closed-source Web Start implementation is not a testing priority for Oracle, so I put my shoulder to the wheel and filed a few bugs.
>
> Anyway, I haven't seen any mention of Web Start in the various Jigsaw documents, can I assume that there is a plan to add the "emergency hatch" VM options to the java-vm-args whitelist? Without it we are dead in the water, and I assume we are not alone!
>
There was a huge effort behind the scenes to get Web Start working as 
modules. I'm only aware of one issue so far. That issue is that 
transitive closure of the jdk.javaws module is limit the modules that 
can be read by applications launched in the same VM as the javaws 
launcher. A fix for this is in progress.

So what issues are you running into that requires changing the 
java-vm-args whitelist? Are these applications using JDK-internal APIs?

-Alan