Are you sure that you have a cycle between modules? You state that "monitor.statistics depends on monitor.persistence", however I do not see this in module-info.java:
module monitor.statistics { requires monitor.observer; exports monitor.statistics; } 2018-05-08 16:34 GMT+07:00 Nicolai Parlog <n...@codefx.org>: > Hi Zheka, > > this branch demonstrates what I describe: > > https://github.com/CodeFX-org/demo-jpms-monitor/tree/break- > cyclic-dependency-compile-time > > Run `multi-compile.sh && run.sh` and you will see the compiler happily > creating the modules whereas the runtime complains about the cyclic > dependency. Maybe I'm doing something weird without noticing? (I tried > it on 9.0.1, 9.0.4, 10, and 11-ea+7.) > > so long ... Nicolai > > > > On 08.05.2018 11:05, Zheka Kozlov wrote: > > Hi Nicolai. > > > > I cannot reproduce what you said. I'm using JDK 10.0.1. I created two > > modules moduleA and moduleB which require each other. When I tried to > > compile, javac failed with an error: cyclic dependence involving module. > > > > Do you observer a different behavior? > > > > 2018-05-08 15:01 GMT+07:00 Nicolai Parlog <n...@codefx.org>: > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> In early access builds, multi-module compilation would fail if there was > >> a dependency cycle between the involved modules. I just realized that > >> that is no longer the case in 9.0.1 and later (up to Java 11). > >> > >> I'm interested to learn the background for that decision? I considered > >> that check A Good Thing - why was it removed? > >> > >> so long ... Nicolai > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> PGP Key: > >> http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search= > 0xCA3BAD2E9CCCD509 > >> > >> Web: > >> http://codefx.org > >> a blog about software development > >> https://www.sitepoint.com/java > >> high-quality Java/JVM content > >> http://do-foss.de > >> Free and Open Source Software for the City of Dortmund > >> > >> Twitter: > >> https://twitter.com/nipafx > >> > > > > -- > > PGP Key: > http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xCA3BAD2E9CCCD509 > > Web: > http://codefx.org > a blog about software development > https://www.sitepoint.com/java > high-quality Java/JVM content > http://do-foss.de > Free and Open Source Software for the City of Dortmund > > Twitter: > https://twitter.com/nipafx >