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[David Holmes]

On 12/09/2011 7:27 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:
> On 09/11/2011 10:54 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> Once we have the modulepath support in then it should make it easy without
>> needing to installing a module.
>
> The module path is the way to find a module before looking it in the module
> system.
> Patching just one file should not require to declare a module or the whole
> module you perhaps need also the module-info but not more.

I was just thinking the same thing. It is extremely convenient to be able to 
"override" individual class implementations using the bootclasspath. It 
would have been far less convenient if -Xbootclasspath had required you to 
use a jar rather than just a class. The same will go for modulepath if we 
can only "override" modules not individual classes within them.

David

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>> -Alan.
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> Rémi
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