> On 17 Jan 2017, at 00:02, Remi Forax <fo...@univ-mlv.fr> wrote: > > Cris, > it seems that there is a mechanism for API that are experimental in the jdk, > by example java.net.http uses this mechanism, is it possible to reuse the > same mechanism for the jlink plugin API ?
I did look at the possibility exposing the JLink Plugin API through an incubator module, but found that it would add complication to the code in order to refactor out the API to the extent where regular plugins could co-exist with custom plugins, while not having the jlink module depend on the incubator module. I discussed this offline with the jlink folk and they seemed to think that since this is a niche area, having to add --add-exports to was a reasonable compromise at this point, rather than the potentially more invasive changes that would be required to use incubator modules. -Chris.
