A response from RedHat - http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jpms-spec-experts/2017-May/000690.html <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jpms-spec-experts/2017-May/000690.html>.
Ralph > On May 5, 2017, at 1:49 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wow. He is basically saying that Java 9 with the module system is going to be > released whether or not the expert group approves it or not. I also noticed > that the link to the Maven core developers responses immediately followed the > response of Stephen Colebourne who flatly said auto modules won’t work and > Robert Scholte’s (a core Maven developer) was less than enthusiastic. > > Personally, I think Stephen is correct. The only thing adding the manifest > does is declare that when the jar is modularized what its name will be. The > thing is, you can’t add that manifest entry unless it complies with the rules > with package names. It seems to me that this is the same as having a > module-info.java that declares the module name but has no exports or > dependencies declared. I am not sure what the result of that will be when > the jar tries to call something it didn’t declare. If you’ve read the spec > and found something I missed please let me know. > > Ralph > >> On May 5, 2017, at 1:09 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> FYI: http://mreinhold.org/blog/to-the-jcp-ec >> >> Gary > > >
