RFR [9] 8153737: Unsupported Module

[Peter Levart]

On 04/08/2016 12:24 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>> On 7 Apr 2016, at 19:14, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Enough technical debt has been paid down that we can now create the new
>> JDK-specific module as proposed by JEP 260 [1], named jdk.unsupported.
>> This module will initially contain, and export, the sun.misc package,
>> and will eventually export the sun.reflect package too ( once it has
>> been sanitized ). The jdk.unsupported module will be present in full JRE
>> and JDK images.
>>
> And in the modular world it’s necessary to explicitly declare a requirement on idk.unsupported.

Will jdk.unsupported be "required public" by java.se? Will you have to 
explicitly -addmodule jdk.unsupported for class-path programs too?

Regards, Peter

>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8153737/
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8153737
>>
> +1
>
> An important milestone.
>
> Paul.