RFR - 8132734: java.util.jar.* changes to support multi-release jar files

[Joseph D. Darcy]

On 10/14/2015 1:56 PM, Steve Drach wrote:
>>>>> The current test directory contains binary jar files. In fact in all the test directories, there are 52 binary .jar files.
>>>> I know but we need to work to remove those.
>>> I figured that might be the response, but thought it was worth the try ;-)
>>>
>> A reasonable way forward is to go with pre-baked jar files (it’s not making the current situation particular any worse) then lets try and clear up this aspect in a later push, hopefully using a common mechanism that can be used by all such tests that need to construct jar files.
> +1 on the common mechanism.  For building jars and other common tasks.
>
> It would also be nice to have some form of test sequencing or other way to indicate that multiple tests depend on a common set of artifacts and that set only needs to be created once.
>

You can put multiple @build and @run directives in a test. In 
particular, you can build and run multiple Java sources files, such as 
sources for different logical tests, from a single jtreg @test file. I 
believe you can use this capability to implement sequencing.

HTH,

-Joe