java.library.path fix for MacOS X (7145798)

Igor Nekrestyanov igor.nekrestyanov at oracle.com
Mon Feb 20 09:26:34 PST 2012


On 2/20/12 9:22 AM, Greg Brown wrote:
>> It is not just VM instantiated. It comes with full set of Java Runtime classes and libraries.
> That is not necessarily true. It is really up to whoever creates the bundle. I could choose to embed a restricted subset of the JRE in order to reduce the app bundle size, in which case it would not contain a complete JRE.
Alright, it might be "stripped" version of java runtime if license 
allows manual stripping (and then we can not use "Java" to refer to it 
anymore?) and you willing to strip classes out of rt.jar.
But it is still Runtime, not just JVM. Java application need runtime to 
be executed.

-igor




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