On 25/02/2015 18:03, Paul Sandoz wrote:
On Feb 25, 2015, at 6:45 PM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> wrote:
On 25 February 2015 at 13:30, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote:
Even in the modular world i will expect class scanning will be used. While we
can now iterate reliably over classes in the image i don't believe that
functionality is made available for classes in modules on the module path.
To be honest, being able to reliably iterate over classes in a module
is the most interesting potential feature about modules in general.
Really? I would have thought that the most interesting aspects would be
formalizing names and dependencies so they can be computed on.
Right, plus encapsulation too. I've no doubt that there will be APIs
(both new and updates to existing) to introspect the contents of modules
but I wouldn't consider this one of the primary goals or benefits of
modules, rather it's just something that has to happen anyway as part of
bringing modules to the platform.
-Alan
