Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Jigsaw Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:37:55 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:36496 On 4/20/2017 9:10 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: > No, my post is not about Scott Stark's blog entry, > but rather about this sentence: > > »The previously monolithic runtime library rt.jar is > now split up in Java 9.« > ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ > Didn't I hear that some years before? Wait! > Yes - here it is: > > »Java SE 6 Update 10 consists of several technologies > that improve the user experience related to installing > the JRE, and to deploying and running rich-client Java > (and JavaFX) programs: · Java Kernel Online Installer > - The JRE is now divided into small bundles.«. > ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Not the same. The Java Kernel Online Installer are able to download the JRE in distinct chunks, but when everything is downloaded the result is exactly as for a normal download including a single rt.jar. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/kernel-135055.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/6u10faq-jsp-137957.html#JKernel The Java 9 split in modules actually end up with multiple module files in the JRE installation. Arne