Proposition of improvement: provide extra package for jre-native and jdk, jdk-native

[GeVa2072]

Hi @sebveit,

Does providing extra package on the bases of pre build version for jre-native, jdk or jdk-native as some interest ?

For my work, i made a openjdk-21-jdk-native to allow my host to build some java class.

I can make pull request if you see some interest to provide this package on your layers.

Creating a openjdk-xx.inc and some bb file to make jre, jre-native, jdk, jdk-native where only sha256 will change in fact.

[GeVa2072]

I use as hosts build server the crops/yocto docker image, it’s base on debian-12, and package provided java version stop on 17.

[sebveit]

Hi @GeVa2072,

there are various approaches on how to build Java projects.

Right now, you need to build your app with Ant, Gradle or Maven and copy the resulting files into your build environment.

It might be a good idea to provide native JDKs, to enable the compilation of Java classes inside the build environment.

Therefore I'm open for your idea and your PR on that context, but I don't think we need native JREs.

Please submit a PR and I'll take a look at it. Thank you!