JDK-6356148 : tools with -J should be consistently documented
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: launcher
  • Affected Version: 6
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2005-11-29
  • Updated: 2013-06-04
  • Resolved: 2013-06-04
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-6320975 - non-java-tool -J-cp path doesn't work
Relates :  
JDK-4495771 - command line tools should all support -version
Description
Some tools have -J<vmoption> documented like javap, javac, jrunscript, but
some tools do not have this command line option documented like jhat etc..
we should keep it consistent.
Comments
I have not gotten any response and it seems to me that this bug is extremely difficult to fix without causing regressions. I am going to close this bug, if there are no objections and justification for fix.
04-06-2013
what exactly does the user want ? documentation ?
07-05-2013
EVALUATION A fine change to be done in concert with changes to make the command line interfaces more consistent, uniform -version flags, etc. However, if an executable is not derived from the launcher source code, it will probably not support -J<vmoption>.
29-11-2005