| [mat-dev] MAT dependency on IBM's vm.jar |
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Hello Technology PMC members, I need some help to decide what to do with a newly
introduced dependency in Memory Analyzer. For one particular feature – triggering a heap dump
from an IBM JVM – a new plugin in MAT is using the following packages/classes: com.ibm.tools.attach.* com.ibm.jvm.Dump Both are included in the vm.jar which is part of IBM JVMs
(located in /jre/lib/vm.jar). Thus, this specific plugin (org.eclipse.mat.ibmdumps)
needs to be compiled with an IBM JDK. No classes from the IBM VM are included into our plugins, we
just need them for compilation. However, there is currently a bit strange compile procedure for
CBI build (https://build.eclipse.org/hudson/view/Athena%20CBI%20%28SVN%29/job/cbi-mat-nightly/)
because the IBM JVM available there is not recent enough for our needs. Because
of this some MAT classes compiled with the IBM VM on a developer PC are checked-in
in SVN, and the compilation is done against them (see comment 23 in Bug 229449 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=229449) I have several questions: 1) Do we need to open a CQ for calling classes located in
the vm.jar, part of IBM JDK 2) If a CQ is needed, is “works with” the proper
type? – no IBM classes get included, IBM VM needed for compilation, IBM
VM needed at runtime for this specific code to work 3) We are preparing for graduating out of the incubator
state. If an eventual CQ is not ready by the time we would like to have our release
review, then are we allowed to create the release if we do NOT include the
specific plugin needing this dependency? MAT can work well without this plugin
also. Thank you in advance for giving me some hints! Regards, Krum Tsvetkov Pflichtangaben/Mandatory Disclosure Statements: http://www.sap.com/company/legal/impressum.epx
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