On 04/01/2017 15:15, Thomas Watson wrote:
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In theory fragments can be dynamically attached to an already resolved
host (module) which implies that we need to be able to dynamically add
packages to the existing host module. With that in mind, if we wanted
to support dynamic attachment of fragments then the ability to add
packages would also be useful to me.
I'm curious what the typical use-case is for this. Most of time that
I've seen discussions on fragments then it was about adding i18n
resources but there are other ways to do that sort of thing (i18n
bundles can be deployed as service provider modules for example). An
approximate equivalent of fragments here is patching where code is
compiled or run "as if" it's part of a host module. This is important
for tests that are in the same package as the API under test or other ad
hoc patching or testing needs where classes or resources in a module
need to be overridden.
In any case, exposing an API to add packages dynamically has a number of
implications. To date then the layer API wasn't really intended to
create layer with a single larval module so I think we would need
conclusions on this topic on the JSR list but putting in support for that.
-Alan
