Re: modules and resources [ was: suggested document enhancement]

2018-03-03 Thread Bernard Amade
I suspected that webstart will be deprecated but ... that raises interesting questions: - why is the java 9 doc not up to date? https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/deploy/toc.html (explicitly describes webstart) - what would be a (future?) technology to update deliveries? (needed!) (and btw this: h

Re: modules and resources [ was: suggested document enhancement]

2018-03-02 Thread Jochen Theodorou
Am 02.03.2018 um 15:14 schrieb Bernard Amade: [...] 2) then what is the simplest way to deploy jars if clicking on a jar does not work anymore with modules? (scripts are platform dependent, so are Jlink images ,...and what happens with jars delivered through java webstart? should we consider

modules and resources [ was: suggested document enhancement]

2018-03-02 Thread Bernard Amade
thanks for replying > Le 2 mars 2018 à 11:59, Alan Bateman a écrit : >> > Resources aren't a first class concept in the module system so we of course > recommend using services itself. so you mean reconsider the resource handling as a spi (as it is done with ResourceBundle) explaining things

Re: suggested document enhancement

2018-03-02 Thread Alan Bateman
On 02/03/2018 09:22, Bernard Amade wrote: Hello all since my job is to write java tutorials I have to confess I am lost on some topics about the module system. Here is a first concern: - I used to teach to deploy resources in an additional jar at deploy time - so if a code requesting a resource

suggested document enhancement

2018-03-02 Thread Bernard Amade
Hello all since my job is to write java tutorials I have to confess I am lost on some topics about the module system. Here is a first concern: - I used to teach to deploy resources in an additional jar at deploy time - so if a code requesting a resource was in package/directory com.mycomp.biz the