JDK-8025508 : Ability to read options and filenames from file
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: launcher
  • Affected Version: 7u40
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: windows_7
  • Submitted: 2013-09-21
  • Updated: 2013-09-26
  • Resolved: 2013-09-26
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Description
A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
The "javac" tool allows the use of:

@<filename> to "Read options and filenames from file"

Please provide the same functionality for the "java" tool.

JUSTIFICATION :
Very often, the compile and runtime classpath are identical. Adding this functionality will allow both command-lines to share the same configuration.

Currently we need to manually sync the data between the external file for javac and inline value for java.