Review request on the optional modules support

[Jesse Glick]

On 08/04/2011 03:35 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jigsaw/webrevs/optional-modules.00/

Parenthetical note: "jdk.jaxp" as a module name seems wrong since JAXP is not specific to the JDK (i.e. JRE + tools); would expect "jre.jaxp". Same for AWT, etc.

> A new @RequireOptionalModule annotation is defined to indicate that the annotated type

"Annotated element" I guess (includes methods); Javadoc needs to be edited.

> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/doc/topics/optional.html

Open question #1 - does it not suffice that @ROM is @Documented?

Open question #3 - a Maven plugin for checking JRE compatibility does something like this: http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer-annotations/