On 02/03/2016 12:40, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
Tools like Reflections [1], Scannotaions [2] and many more [3] provide
the ability to find instances of annotations on the classpath. They
also provide the ability to find subclasses of an interface. This kind
of tooling is commonly needed by Java EE. Different tools use
different approaches to gather the information, but it is definitely
something that could be captured when building a module. At the very
least, it is important to ensure that these tools continue to work.
There is an item in the requirements document on this [1] but nothing in
the jake forest specifically for this. Link-time is potentially a great
phase to do indexing of modules that will be linked into the run-time
image and I'm sure that lots could be explored there.
Just on existing tools that are scanning the class path, have you run
into issues there that suggest they won't work as before?
-Alan
[1]
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/reqs/#efficient-annotation-detection
