jdk.unsupported module missing from compact profiles

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Sun Oct 30 07:37:49 UTC 2016


On 29/10/2016 23:09, Simon Nash wrote:

> My application uses sun.misc.SignalHandler which is now in the 
> jdk.unsupported
> module.  This class is available when running with the full JRE but 
> not when
> running with the compact3 JRE.
>
> The sun.misc.* classes are available in the compact1/2/3 profiles in 
> JDK 8 and
> I don't see any reason why the compact1/2/3 profiles should not 
> contain these
> classes in JDK 9.
Not an issue if you are using jlink to create the runtime image yourself 
but fair point that the JDK build should probably include 
jdk.unsupported in the runtime images for the compact Profiles. I'll 
create a bug for this.

-Alan.


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