Hi With the addition of GetModuleByPackageName added to JVMTI ([1], [2]), are there any plans to add similar functionality to the Instrumentation API (or somewhere else)?
>From ClassFileTransformer we now get the Module for the class that is currently being transformed, but a very common scenario when transforming a class that is being loaded, is the need to get information about other classes used by that class; classes which might not have been loaded yet, meaning we need to get the bytes somehow. A common approach to this pre-jigsaw, was simply to translate the classname to a filename and ClassLoader::getResourceAsStream; but with named modules, this is no longer the case, we now have to know which Module that class is in in order to get the bytes (#ClassFilesAsResources, #ResourceEncapsulation etc). Adding a GetModuleByPackageName equivalent method would go some way to help with this issue. Regards Michael Rasmussen ZeroTurnaround [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8159145 [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2016-June/023480.html
