On 25/04/2017 14:51, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
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Has this been documented anywhere? Because all modules in one
classloader seems like entirely the wrong default and I don't
understand the trade off. Clashes on concealed packages will not be
popular.
Changing visibility would be a huge change, esp. when you consider the
interop between the class path and modules. Lots of APIs and code have
issues with anything but parent delegation. We've been down this road
before in the exploration phase of Project Jigsaw. The proposal for JDK
9 is to keep things simple: no changes to visibility, no fundamental
changes to the initial class loader arrangement. I fully expect this
will be re-visited in the future, probably in conjunction with
changes/upgrades to several APIs. It's something that would likely take
an entire release to bake.
-Alan
