Java 9 has three ways to package compiled code in files: JAR JMOD JIMAGE JIMAGE is optimized for speed and space and used by the JVM at runtime so it makes sense why JIMAGE was introduced. JIM...

In JRE-9/lib directory (at least on Windows), there is a new file called modules whose size is about 107 MB. Is it possible to extract that file or maybe list java modules within it? I can see tha...

I'm migrating an application to Java 10. Our application normally runs with the JRE, but we allow users to compile bits of their own custom code by bundling tools.jar and using reflection to load a...