Why is jfxrt.jar not distributed as .pack?

Kevin Rushforth kevin.rushforth at oracle.com
Thu Nov 29 14:09:01 PST 2012


No, but I can find out. We just deliver jfxrt.jar into the JDK / JRE 
build and rely on the JRE installer to package it up from there.

-- Kevin


Richard Bair wrote:
> Kevin, do you know?
>
> On Nov 26, 2012, at 8:12 AM, Sven Reimers <sven.reimers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> the subject says it all. rt.jar is delivered inside the jre installer as a
>> .pack file to reduce download bandwidth / distribution size. Why is
>> jfxrt.jar not delivered the same way?
>>
>> Should this be the case? Is this behaviour intentional? Shall I file a bug
>> with JIRA?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -Sven
>>
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