Module Views

[Alan Bateman]

On 08/12/2011 16:07, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>
> I don't really understand the source code argument to be honest.  It 
> is relatively rare for a user to refer to a module by name within Java 
> source, yet even if they do, it shouldn't make any difference which 
> approach is taken.
>
> If you're talking about the source for the module descriptor, we've 
> not found it to be a problem yet.  Our re-exporting modules seem to be 
> easily understandable.
It's the source code layout, as in modulepath [1]. Once we get to 
restructuring the JDK sources then views should make it cleaner.

-Alan.

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/doc/ModulesAndJavac.pdf