JEP proposed to target JDK 22: 458: Launch Multi-File Source-Code Programs

[Mark Reinhold]

The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 22:

  458: Launch Multi-File Source-Code Programs
       https://openjdk.org/jeps/458

  Summary: Enhance the java application launcher to be able to run a
  program supplied as multiple files of Java source code.  This will
  make the transition from small programs to larger ones more gradual,
  enabling developers to choose whether and when to go to the trouble of
  configuring a build tool.

Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
are raised by 20:00 UTC on Friday, 1 December, or if they’re raised and
then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [2]
I’ll target this JEP to JDK 22.

- Mark


[1] https://openjdk.org/census#jdk
[2] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html