RFR: 8167180: [JVMCI] Exported elements referring to inaccessible types in jdk.vm.ci

[Doug Simon]

> On 13 Oct 2016, at 20:57, Christian Thalinger <cthalinger at twitter.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 13, 2016, at 3:25 AM, Doug Simon <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> I’d like to humbly request a compiler team member to review this change as well ;-)
> 
> Looks good.  I have one question:
>  module jdk.vm.ci {
>      exports jdk.vm.ci.services;
> 
> -    exports jdk.vm.ci.runtime.services;
> -    exports jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.services;
> Why are these exports not required anymore?

Because those packages no longer exist ;-) The classes have been moved to jdk.vm.ci.runtime and jdk.vm.ci.hotspot respectively.

-Doug

>>> On 12 Oct 2016, at 16:26, Doug Simon <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>>> 
>>>> On 12 Oct 2016, at 16:16, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 11/10/2016 21:44, Doug Simon wrote:
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>>>>>> On 11 Oct 2016, at 22:40, Mandy Chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Oct 11, 2016, at 1:36 PM, Doug Simon <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Another alternative name is JVMCIServiceLocator:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> /**
>>>>>>> * Service-provider class for the runtime to locate providers of JVMCI services where the latter are
>>>>>>> * not in packages exported by the JVMCI module. As part of instantiating
>>>>>>> * {@link JVMCIServiceLocator}, all JVMCI packages will be {@linkplain Services#exportJVMCITo(Class)
>>>>>>> * exported} to the module defining the class of the instantiated object.
>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>> * While the {@link #getProvider(Class)} method can be used directly, it's usually easier to use
>>>>>>> * {@link #getProviders(Class)}.
>>>>>>> */
>>>>>>> public abstract class JVMCIServiceLocator
>>>>>> This class will find the provider of a given service.  I think JVMCIServiceLocator is fine.
>>>>> Ok, I’ll make that change in the final patch.
>>>>> 
>>>> This name looks okay to me. I assume the first sentence in the javadoc will be updated too as it's a service locator now rather than a "service-provider”.
>>> 
>>> Well, it is still a service provider in the sense that it’s looked up via a ServiceLoader. The service it provides is to locate other (non-ServiceLoader) services. That is, JVMCIServiceLocator is an alternative to ServiceProvider for services that need access to the JVMCI module before they can be created.
>>> 
>>> -Doug
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