2015/7/28 8:12 -0700, Simon Nash <si...@cjnash.com>: > mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: >> 2015/7/28 4:21 -0700, Simon Nash <si...@cjnash.com>: >>> ... >>> >>> With JDK 9 and Project Jigsaw, I understand that it will no longer be >>> possible for my application to directly reference internal sun.* classes. >>> Will it still be possible to use ClassLoader.loadClass to load these sun.* >>> classes and use reflection to invoke their methods? >> >> Yes, but you'll have to use a command-line flag to make the classes >> accessible via the reflection API. > > Is this a single option that enables all internal access or does the option > need to be repeated for every internal package or class that the application > needs to access? > > If the option is set, can the application use imports for the internal > packages or is it required to access them reflectively? > > Would it be possible to allow the application to set this option > programmatically on initialization or set it internally in some other way > (e.g., in its jar manifest) so that the users of the application don't need > to specify it on the launch command?
These are all good questions. We're nearly done drafting a JEP which will answer them, so rather than answer them here can I ask that you read the JEP when it's published? Thanks, - Mark
