Creating new packages in the world of modules

[Weijun Wang]

Hi Alan

I'm planning to add two RFEs to OpenJDK:

1. A SASL mechanism called NTLM, which includes two new packages:

   a. com.sun.security.sasl.ntlm: The SASL provider
   b. com.sun.security.ntlm: The raw NTLM API

   Here I've created an NTLM API which I hope can also be used by sun/net/www/protocol/http/ntlm/NTLMAuthentication.java.

2. Keytool and Jarsigner as JSR 199 Tools, which include interfaces in a new package com.sun.security.tools, implementations in sun.security.tools and new META-INF/services/com.sun.security.tools.* entries.

I know you have spent a lot of time recently to make sure classes to be distributed in different modules and their dependencies carefully maintained. If I want to add the new packages above, what do I need to take care of most? Any configuration files to modify? Is there a latest map showing the content of current existing modules?

BTW, what is the fate of ServiceLoader in modules? Will META-INF/services entries spread into different modules and ServiceLoader tries to get a union of them for each service class?

Thanks
Max