My current understanding is that the JDK is only considered platform-dependent because it includes a JRE and thus JVM, which is platform-dependent.
Among the JDK development tools, I know that javac is cross-platform, but what about the other tools?
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Some of the JDK tools have platform dependent code. One obvious example is jpackage which generates platform dependent executables.
If you want to research this further, download the OpenJDK codebase and use find to find all of the directories with names like "windows", "unix" and "solaris". Then figure out what uses / depends on the code in the respective directories.
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