Accessing module internals from bytecode rewriting agent

[dalibor topic]

On 05.05.2017 08:39, Jeremy Manson wrote:
> Mostly, I'm telling you all because I think it makes an interesting case
> study - a large Java installation and the issues it faces trying to roll
> out JDK 9.

Indeed - thank you for providing valuable insight into your concerns and 
experiences.

> If other installations do the kinds of things that we do, the path to a
> JDK 9 without lots of add-exports and kill switch options is likely to
> be slow and laborious for them.  We're comparatively well situated to do
> it - we have our own JDK build and a staffed team to do / help with the
> migration, and are likely to roll it out to everyone with the kill
> switch turned on by default so that our awful hacks can stay put until
> we finish fixing them.

I think part of responsibly relying on awful hacks leveraging 
unsupported behavior is to budget for their removal/rewrite as the 
assumptions behind them get invalidated over time.

Sometimes, it might be well known where the awful hacks are buried, in 
particular with one's own code. Other times, in particular with third 
party code, it might not be quite as obvious. That's where the jdeps & 
jdeprscan tools come in to help get a sense of the scope & intensity of 
such problems at compile time.

The kill switch complements that at runtime.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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