Jigsaw

[Michael Hall]

On Feb 27, 2015, at 2:22 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 27/02/2015 01:13, Michael Hall wrote:
>> Still a little curious on this. There had been past speculation that one benefit of this project would be smaller OS X application bundles with embedded JRE’s.
>> I see that the current JDK 9 early access is now in fact a jigsaw (JSR 220?) one.
>> I downloaded it. I joined the jigsaw-dev mailing list where I suppose I could ask this.
> Correct, the macosx-port-dev list is the wrong list to start.

OK, i’ll move over to jigsaw-dev.

> 
> 
>>  But I’d rather start with a noob question here I guess.
>> Documentation, examples, tutorials still look a little scarce. I did find…
>> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/doc/quickstart.html
>> But that talks about commands like jmod and jpkg.
>> I don’t seem to find those anywhere?
> This is a quick start documentation from the original Jigsaw prototype of a few years ago, I guess it's a reminder that some of these obsolete pages needs to be updated to make it clear that they are obsolete. So start again at the top-level page and follow the links from here.

If for top-level page you mean 
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/
I have looked at it a couple times but haven’t yet noticed any links to documentation, tutorials, examples, javadoc? I have seen mention of a new file system. Some talk of features not in place yet. But all a little vague and incomplete enough so far as to not make much sense. 
But I can bring this up on jigsaw-dev.

Michael Hall

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