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Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API

Name: Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API
Author: Kishori Sharan
ISBN: 9781484235461

by Kishori Sharan

April 2018

Intermediate to advanced

826 pages

25h 57m

English

Apress

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Kishori SharanJava APIs, Extensions and Librarieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3546-1_11

11. Packaging Modules

Kishori Sharan¹

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Montgomery, Alabama, USA

In this chapter, you will learn:

Different formats for packaging Java modules
Enhancements to the JAR format
What a multi-release JAR is
How to create and use multi-release JARs
What the JMOD format is
How to use the jmod tool to work with JMOD files
How to create, extract, and describe JMOD files
How to list the contents of JMOD files
How to record hashes of modules in JMOD files for dependency validation

A module can be packaged in different formats to be used in three phases—compile-time, link time, and runtime. Not all formats are supported in all phases. JDK9 supports the ...

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Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API

by Kishori Sharan

11. Packaging Modules

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