Hello! I'd like to gauge interest in adding a full Java module descriptor (a.k.a JPMS though the use of the acronym is discouraged) to commons-jexl.
The codebase is currently Java 8 compatible. Adding a full Java descriptor requires using Java 9+ in the build but does not force the whole codebase to migrate. There are a couple of alternatives to make this work: - setup Maven so that a secondary source tree containing `module-info-.java` is compiled with Java 9+. The compiled class should be added to the project's JAR file inside the versioned space, such as `/META-INF/versions/9/module-info.class`. - use the Moditect[1] Maven plugin to generate `module-info.class` and place it inside the JAR. Full Java modules are required when creating custom Java runtimes with jlink, regardless of the modular status of the target application. This is the use case I'm looking for at the moment. If interested I can work on a PR based on feedback you may have. Cheers, Andres [1] https://github.com/moditect/moditect PS: Some metadata of the latest JAR file: ``` $ jarviz bytecode show --gav org.apache.commons:commons-jexl3:3.3 subject: commons-jexl3-3.3.jar Unversioned classes. Bytecode version: 52 (Java 8) total: 321 $ jarviz module name --gav org.apache.commons:commons-jexl3:3.3 subject: commons-jexl3-3.3.jar name: commons.jexl3 source: filename automatic: true valid: true $ jarviz bytecode show --gav org.apache.commons:commons-jexl3:3.3 subject: commons-jexl3-3.3.jar Unversioned classes. Bytecode version: 52 (Java 8) total: 321 aalmiray2:tmp aalmiray$ jarviz module descriptor --gav org.apache.commons:commons-jexl3:3.3 subject: commons-jexl3-3.3.jar name: commons.jexl3 version: 3.3 open: false automatic: true requires: java.base mandated provides: javax.script.ScriptEngineFactory with org.apache.commons.jexl3.scripting.JexlScriptEngineFactory contains: org.apache.commons.jexl3 org.apache.commons.jexl3.annotations org.apache.commons.jexl3.internal org.apache.commons.jexl3.internal.introspection org.apache.commons.jexl3.introspection org.apache.commons.jexl3.parser org.apache.commons.jexl3.scripting ``` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
