RFC: JDK 9 Sandbox Forest Proposal

[David Chase]

On 2014-09-21, at 1:01 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> There isn't a module system in JDK 9 yet, it's going to take time to bring all the pieces in and there is a lot of transition and changes along the way. We tried to make it clear in JEP 200 that until there is a module system in place that it would require maintaining the XML document that defines the modular structure. That's the document that gets translated early in the build now to create the build dependences, it is also used to verify the resulting bits at the end. So it is awkward at the moment but should get much better once we have a module system in place.

I tried to knit my additions into that xml document, reconfigured, etc,
but I must have mispronounced one of the magic words.  I assume it
must have been some basically stupid clerical error, but after 3 tries
I decided to just stuff it into java.base, which also seems suboptimal,
but less suboptimal that build-borking failure.

David