module-info compilation on legacy JDK

[Henri Tremblay]

And thanks Alan for the link. Highly useful.

On 7 September 2016 at 14:18, Henri Tremblay <henri at tremblay.pro> wrote:

> Thanks a lot Rémi pour the answer.
>
> Sorry about the noise. Wasn't aware of the jigsaw-dev list.
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> On 2 September 2016 at 16:18, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 02/09/2016 19:32, Remi Forax wrote:
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>>> Hi Henry,
>>> there are two ways to do that,
>>> -with javac, you first compile all your .java files but the
>>> module-info.java with --release 6 (or -source 6 -target 6 -Xbootclasspath
>>> ...) then you compile the module-info.java with --release 9.
>>> -with a bytecode tool like ASM, you don't need a module-info.java in
>>> that case, because you can generate it, so you compile all your classes
>>> with javac --release 6 and you generate the module-info.class with the
>>> bytecode tool.
>>>
>>> BTW, the right list for this kind of questions is still jigsaw-dev.
>>>
>>> Yes, jigsaw-dev is the list for ths.  A similar thread was posted there
>> last week discussing how to do this with Maven [1].
>>
>> -Alan
>>
>> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2016-Augus
>> t/009185.html
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