From: Werner Keil <werner.keil_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 17:53:34 +0200

I'm sure, some of you may have picked that up, too:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2012-August/003094.html

Whether or not it means something useful before JDK 9, I don't know.
All these say .../8-ea, which indicates, it is part of the JDK 8 code base,
even if that might be done on some "nightly" or "jigsaw" branch, to keep it
away from "Mainstream Java 8"[?]

Beside the sizes of these folders, given some people in this thread and EG
flagged the idea of making Corba and/or RMI optional, it seems like a good
question, if the subsequent folders may be optional with all their content,
too..?

$ du -k `find . -name 'config'`
696 ./jdk.corba/8-ea/config
1304 ./jdk.classpath/8-ea/config
1232 ./jdk.tools/8-ea/config
604 ./jdk.rmi/8-ea/config
680 ./jdk.tools.base/8-ea/config
604 ./jdk.base/8-ea/config
1056 ./jdk.tools.jaxws/8-ea/config
676 ./jdk.devtools/8-ea/config
608 ./jdk.tools.jre/8-ea/config

$ du -k `find . -name 'config'`444 ./jdk.corba/8-ea/config
792 ./jdk.classpath/8-ea/config
748 ./jdk.tools/8-ea/config392 ./jdk.rmi/8-ea/config
436 ./jdk.tools.base/8-ea/config
392 ./jdk.base/8-ea/config
636 ./jdk.tools.jaxws/8-ea/config
436 ./jdk.devtools/8-ea/config
396 ./jdk.tools.jre/8-ea/config

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On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Jim Knutson <knutson_at_us.ibm.com> wrote:
> "Jason T. Greene" <jason.greene_at_redhat.com> wrote on 07/26/2012 09:58:33
> AM:
>
> > IMO a better approach is defining something thinner that is purely
> > around classloading, and bridges well to the legacy EE approach. We
> > should make it easy as possible for users to transition to the modular
> > world.
>
> I'm not sure it can be a simple thin EE update on classloading.  There are
> a
> number of specifications that make assumptions about classloading that
> may not apply or be valid any more if the classloading requirements are
> changed.  It's been particularly annoying trying to get them to pass
> TCKs in modular environments.  One example is JSTL JDBC DriverManager
> support.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Knutson
> WebSphere Java EE Architect
>
>