Modular JAR file support

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Wed Apr 6 11:31:15 PDT 2011


  On 4/6/11 11:08 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> Mandy Chung wrote:
>>
>> :
>>
>> Webrev at:
>>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jigsaw/webrevs/modular-jar-file/
> I went through the webrev and the changes mostly look good to me, easy 
> to follow. A general comment is that the install is open to races with 
> other concurrent access to the module library but that's a bigger 
> problem, not a big concern for this.
>

Right, this is a bigger problem that we need to get to that at some 
point.  Looks like the concurrent access is not mentioned in the TODO 
comment; I'll add that.

> I read the mail from David Schlosnagle on the missing close and a 
> related suggestion for using try-with-resources is that 
> ModuleFileFormat.Reader could implement Closeable which would allow a 
> bit of clean-up in SimpleLibrary.install.
>

I think you meant AutoCloseable? Sounds a good idea.

> Minor nit, the copyright year on the test in 2009.
>
Fixed.

Mandy



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