Re:JDK 9 modules voted down by EC
by guilt on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @03:35AM
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This is not a good thing.
They were finally getting to have a fully built out environment - which could lead to better end user packaging, stripping down a library to its bare essentials.
For instance: what have jpackage achieved for a distribution like RedHat? Does anyone's Java App even pick up these RPM based dependencies for Classpath? Heck no.
Every known large scale Java application pretty much bundles a bunch of JARs. (Probably not logstash - but only one exception)
It is very clear that JDK9 will not be as awesome as it was originally supposed to be. Deeply disappointed.
They were finally getting to have a fully built out environment - which could lead to better end user packaging, stripping down a library to its bare essentials.
For instance: what have jpackage achieved for a distribution like RedHat? Does anyone's Java App even pick up these RPM based dependencies for Classpath? Heck no.
Every known large scale Java application pretty much bundles a bunch of JARs. (Probably not logstash - but only one exception)
It is very clear that JDK9 will not be as awesome as it was originally supposed to be. Deeply disappointed.