Upgradeable Modules Question

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Sep 7 06:24:40 UTC 2016


On 06/09/2016 23:37, Alex Buckley wrote:

> On 9/6/2016 3:31 PM, Richard Opalka wrote:
>> Can Jigsaw module be both upgreadeable and automatic?
>
> No. By definition, an upgradeable module is a module linked into a 
> runtime image. An automatic module is not linked into a runtime image.
Maybe the question is asking if it's possible to deploy an automatic 
module on the upgrade module path to upgrade a module in the runtime 
image? That is possible of course (and necessary in the case of the 
java.transaction module because the EE version has dependences that 
aren't modules yet).

-Alan


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