RFR: JDK-8155237 - jlink plugin to order resources should take a class list as input

[Alan Bateman]

On 09/05/2016 18:41, Jim Laskey (Oracle) wrote:
> Modifies the jlink sort-plugin to accept a classlist to order files in the jimage.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/8155237/webrev/index.html
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8155237
>
I also see improvements with cold start so I think this is good and we 
should update the jlink usage in <top>/make/Images.gmk to specify 
--order-resources.

One thing about this is that the argument to the plugin is ambiguous, it 
would be better if there were some way to make it clear whether the 
value is a file or class names/pattern. I just wonder if the file name 
should use @file instead. Related is that value of 
order-resources.description should probably be updated to document the 
file name approach too.

Style wise then you've mixed old and new I/O which seems unnecessary. 
There are a few other cleanups that could be done in this plugin but 
maybe for a cleanup round at some point.

-Alan