JEP 311: Java Packager API & CLI

[Michael Hall]

> On Oct 20, 2017, at 1:51 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 19/10/2017 22:37, Michael Hall wrote:
>> :
>> Thanks. I couldn’t figure out how to use it with the current javapackager. It turned out I needed —add-modules, I’m new to modular concerns.
>> This was for JShell. It also seemed that this needed a java executable in the bin directory. I added that manually and was able to use JShell from a OS X java 9 application.
>> 
> I realize this is going off-topic but can you elaborate more on this. There should never be a need to copy binaries into the bin directory. The jdk.jshell module includes `jshell` launcher for example.

Going back to this. You are saying that using the module launcher would of avoided the exceptions in my last post? Where is this documented?