Seems to be a bug to me. Rémi
----- Mail original ----- > De: "Rafael Winterhalter" <rafael....@gmail.com> > À: "jigsaw-dev" <jigsaw-dev@openjdk.java.net> > Envoyé: Mardi 25 Avril 2017 09:12:04 > Objet: Module naming restrictions > Hello, > > I did another update of my libraries to support Java 9 and found out that > Byte Buddy cannot easily be used as an automatic module. It is published as > byte-buddy.jar to Maven Central where its automatic module name would be > byte.buddy. This does however not compile due to "byte" being a keyword in > Java. Here is what javac gives me: > > src/module-info.java:2: error: <identifier> expected > requires byte.buddy; > ^ > 1 error > > I expect that this is not a common problem but not an uncommon one either. > Looking for artifacts named after Java keywords in Maven Central, you can > find quite a few. > > I do not know if this is technically feasible but I suggest that module > names should not come with any restrictions due to the historic freedom in > naming which would just cause confusion if some projects had to be renamed > just to satisfy the module descriptors restrictions. > > Best regards, Rafael
