Disallowing the dynamic loading of agents by default

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Mar 30 21:30:29 UTC 2017


On 30/03/2017 20:47, Gregg Wonderly wrote:

> Mark, what is the plan for people with .jar files on their desktop who just double click on them to run desktop applications?  How will they know that their upgrade to Java 9 broke the application and how to remedy the problem by either getting a java-9 compatible version of the app (which will likely not be available at Java-9 release), or that they need to roll back to some previous version of Java until the application they are using is compatible with Java-9?
>
> It seems like there is an awful lot of focus on command line solutions when there is a whole class of users who do not use the command line.
>
I can't tell if you meant to reply to this thread or another thread but 
I suspect you are asking about #AddExportsInManifest [1].

-Alan

[1] 
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/issues/#AddExportsInManifest


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