modules and bootclasspath

Mark Reinhold mr at sun.com
Tue Dec 15 14:20:18 PST 2009


> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:34:48 -0800
> From: jonathan.gibbons at sun.com

> Mark Reinhold wrote:
>> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>> -- does it make sense to allow bootclasspath as a sort of implicit override of
>>>    the default platform requirement?
>> 
>> Not sure what you mean here.
> 
> I'm not sure if it makes sense, but what I was meaning was if someone provides
> a bootclasspath, that could be taken as subverting the need for a default
> platform dependency being added to any module-info files.

This shouldn't be an issue, since the JRE will always be running either
in modular mode or in legacy (i.e., classpath) mode.

- Mark



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