Creating new packages in the world of modules

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Weijun Wang wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Weijun,

It may help to look in jdk/make/modules/** for *.config files.  The 
build runs as a "standard build" to begin with, then enters 
"jdk/make/modules" near the end of the build to actually build the 
modules using the info in the config files.

-- Jon