Multi release jars on boot classpath

[Steve Drach]

There are no plans to support multi-release jars on the boot classpath.

> On May 31, 2016, at 2:12 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 31/05/2016 20:53, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I was looking over the specs for the multi release jars, and couldn't find
>> any information if this applied to jars on boot classpath as well (for
>> instance javaagents that add themselves there). All the docs and tasks
>> seems to focus on URLClassLoader, JarFile, etc.
>> 
>> So will multi release jars pick the right class if on boot classloader (ie
>> loaded from null classloader/jvm)?
>> 
> This is question for JEP 238 so including Steve Drach for the definite answer. To my knowledge, there is no support for this. In general then it wouldn't be common to deploy libraries with -Xbootclasspath/a. Yes, agents might want to do this but this is somewhat niche area.
> 
> -Alan