Deployment

[David DeHaven]

> Less brief background.
> I’ve installed the java 9 ea releases. A while back for the jdk, today the jre as well.

Be careful with those... 9 is undergoing a lot of changes so results may vary between ea releases. I highly recommend sticking with JDK 8 releases for now, especially for production code.

Moving forward and investigating modularity is the only reason I'd recommend looking at 9 right now.


> I was going to work on some application code I haven’t been into for a while. 
> I noticed some things not working, one thought was conflicts between the jre version and jdk. The application has some tools related functionality so it did some stuff with ClassLoaders to include tools.jar from the jdk. 
> So I downloaded the JRE as well. Same problems.
> So now I’d like to check against a java 8 version of the application since the functionality in 9 just might not be there yet. 

The runtime (and tools, etc.) in 9 is bundled in modular images instead of jars now.

-DrD-