Dear Maven developers,is there already some slight inital draft or idea for a strategy how maven x.y could deal with jigsaw?
How could this be harmonized and go together? Or will this create an entirely new universe?The concepts seem to be quite similar. Some features should be compatible but various things are not.
Do you have your crystal balls ready and can give a little insight?
For those that have no idea what I am talking about. Jigsaw is a JSR project aiming to modularize the JDK.Initially it was planned only as a technology to be used internally by the JDK
but it is now the be the new module system for java. The successor of the good old JAR is the JMOD file.The analogon for pom.xml is module-info.java that gets bundeled diretly into the JMOD
but can be read uncompressed from the head of the file.module-info.java only addresses identification (module name and version - instead of groudId, artifactId and version)
as well as dependencies. But does not other aspects addressed by pom.xml.Project Jigsaw also defines repositories and stuff like that so there is some sort of compatition with maven, gradle, buildr, OSGi, etc.
I am quite unsure where this journey is going to. Jigsaw was planned for Java6, 7, and also failed to make it into Java8. However, it will surely make it into Java9. Thanks Jörg
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