Is it better for JDK to distribute jmod files independently of JDK itself?

[Alan Bateman]

On 08/02/2022 14:17, Glavo wrote:

> :
>
> In addition, I think there are other better options for the out-of-the-box
> availability of jlink.
> I noticed that a copy of everything in jmod already exists in the JDK
> folder.
> In fact, jmod of JDK core module only needs to store a file list (List of
> paths of all native libraries, executable files and legal files),
> original content backup of some modifiable content (e.g. conf files), and
> the name of module.
> We can re extract the complete jmod file from JDK through these meta
> information, the size of these meta information is completely negligible.
> I'm spending some free time trying to implement such a tool, and I don't
> think it's difficult.
Just an FYI that there are transformations and some class generation at 
link time that means the classes/resources in the run-time image aren't 
identical to the those in the packaged modules.

-Alan