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Compact Profiles

Compact profiles, introduced in Java SE 8, define subsets of the Java SE Platform API that can reduce the static size of the Java runtime on devices that have limited storage capacity.

Overview

A compact profile (or simply profile) is a subset of the full Java SE Platform API. Because they have smaller storage footprints, profiles can enable many Java applications to run on resource-constrained devices. Choosing a profile that closely matches an application's functional needs minimizes the storage devoted to unused functions.

Compact profiles address API choices only; they are unrelated to the Java virtual machine, the language proper, or tools.

There are three profiles, compact1, compact2, and compact3. Each profile includes the APIs of the lower-numbered profiles (compact2 is a superset of compact1). The full SE API is a superset of the compact3 profile. The following table shows the high-level composition of each:

Full SE API Beans JNI JAX-WS
  Preferences Accessibility IDL
  RMI-IIOP CORBA Print Service
  Sound Swing Java 2D
  AWT Drag and Drop Input Methods
  Image I/O    
compact3 Security1 JMX  
  XML JAXP2 Management Instrumentation
compact2 JDBC RMI XML JAXP
compact1 Core (java.lang.*) Security Serialization
  Networking Ref Objects Regular Expressions
  Date and Time Input/Output Collections
  Logging Concurrency Reflection
  JAR ZIP Versioning
  Internationalization JNDI Override Mechanism
  Extension Mechanism Scripting  

1. Adds kerberos, acl, and sasl to compact1 Security.
2. Adds crypto to compact2 XML JAXP.

These JDK 8 tools have explicit support for profiles:

Detailed Profile Composition

The following table lists the API packages in each of the compact profiles. The API Reference also defines profile composition.

compact1 compact2 Additions compact3 Additions
java.io java.rmi java.lang.instrument
java.lang java.rmi.activation java.lang.management
java.lang.annotation java.rmi.dgc java.security.acl
java.lang.invoke java.rmi.registry java.util.prefs
java.lang.ref java.rmi.server javax.annotation.processing
java.lang.reflect java.sql javax.lang.model
java.math javax.rmi.ssl javax.lang.model.element
java.net javax.sql javax.lang.model.type
java.nio javax.transaction javax.lang.model.util
java.nio.channels javax.transaction.xa javax.management
java.nio.channels.spi javax.xml javax.management.loading
java.nio.charset javax.xml.datatype javax.management.modelmbean
java.nio.charset.spi javax.xml.namespace javax.management.monitor
java.nio.file javax.xml.parsers javax.management.openmbean
java.nio.file.attribute javax.xml.stream javax.management.relation
java.nio.file.spi javax.xml.stream.events javax.management.remote
java.security javax.xml.stream.util javax.management.remote.rmi
java.security.cert javax.xml.transform javax.management.timer
java.security.interfaces javax.xml.transform.dom javax.naming
java.security.spec javax.xml.transform.sax javax.naming.directory
java.text javax.xml.transform.stax javax.naming.event
java.text.spi javax.xml.transform.stream javax.naming.ldap
java.time javax.xml.validation javax.naming.spi
java.time.chrono javax.xml.xpath javax.security.auth.kerberos
java.time.format org.w3c.dom javax.security.sasl
java.time.temporal org.w3c.dom.bootstrap javax.sql.rowset
java.time.zone org.w3c.dom.events javax.sql.rowset.serial
java.util org.w3c.dom.ls javax.sql.rowset.spi
java.util.concurrent org.xml.sax javax.tools
java.util.concurrent.atomic org.xml.sax.ext javax.xml.crypto
java.util.concurrent.locks org.xml.sax.helpers javax.xml.crypto.dom
java.util.function   javax.xml.crypto.dsig
java.util.jar   javax.xml.crypto.dsig.dom
java.util.logging   javax.xml.crypto.dsig.keyinfo
java.util.regex   javax.xml.crypto.dsig.spec
java.util.spi   org.ietf.jgss
java.util.stream    
java.util.zip    
javax.crypto    
javax.crypto.interfaces    
javax.crypto.spec    
javax.net    
javax.net.ssl    
javax.script    
javax.security.auth    
javax.security.auth.callback    
javax.security.auth.login    
javax.security.auth.spi    
javax.security.auth.x500    
javax.security.cert    

 


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