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Re: Jigsaw

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Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> Wrote in message:
> On 4/24/2017 11:15 AM, Eric Douglas wrote:
>> On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 10:44:28 AM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Java classes are loaded when they are needed, so I would assume
>>> no changes to classes loaded.
>>>
>>> In theory it should be possible to create a JRE subset with only
>>> some modules.
>>>
>>> I don't think the Java license permits it.
>>>
>>> I don't think there is much point. Given todays network speeds
>>> and disk sizes the JRE is relative small.
>>>
>>> I assume they have done the split for the same reasons other
>>> would want to use the module system. To decouple things better
>>> and make it easier to maintain.
>>>
>>> Arne
>> 
>> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/
>> 
>> The first stated goal was to scale down to fit a Java on smaller devices.  I'm not sure how much space a JRE takes up or what sort of devices you'd need to be able to fit just part of the JRE.
> 
>      Data point: On a Windows machine, the current JRE takes 179MB.
> Class libraries take 96MB, with 53MB devoted to rt.jar, the "core"
> classes. Binaries take another 83MB, of which 40MB are used by
> something called "jfxwebkit.dll" -- perhaps the way to slim down
> Java is to ditch JavaFX!  :)
> 
> -- 
> esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid
> Thirteen hundred sixty-seven days to go.
> 

JavaFX indeed is huge, and most of its standard GUI are severely
 lacking. I've found myself adding the most basic of GUI
 functionalities, or adding components from JFXtras
 etc.
  
And yes, if your application doesn't need JavaFX, you should be
 able to cut it out of the distribution. 
  
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Re: Jigsaw Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-04-20 21:37 -0400
  Re: Jigsaw omegajunior <omegajunior@protonmail.com> - 2017-04-24 08:45 -0400
    Re: Jigsaw Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-04-24 10:44 -0400
      Re: Jigsaw Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 08:15 -0700
        Re: Jigsaw Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-04-24 11:29 -0400
          Re: Jigsaw Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-04-24 11:29 -0400
          Re: Jigsaw omegajunior <omegajunior@protonmail.com> - 2017-04-26 18:32 -0400
            Re: Jigsaw Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-04-26 19:49 -0400
        Re: Jigsaw Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-04-24 11:51 -0400
          Re: Jigsaw omegajunior <omegajunior@protonmail.com> - 2017-04-26 18:37 -0400
            Re: Jigsaw Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-04-26 19:49 -0400
            Re: Jigsaw Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-04-27 07:42 -0400

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