ModuleClassLoader inheritance issue

[David M. Lloyd]

On 02/28/2012 09:20 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 2012/2/28 5:37 -0800, alan.bateman at oracle.com:
>> On 28/02/2012 12:55, Alexey Fedorov wrote:
>>> Is java.lang.module.ModuleClassLoader class planned to be final? Or does
>>> modular-jdk Team plan to add some documentation containing
>>> overriding/inheritance rules for new Modular API?
>>
>> I would say it's TBD for now.
>
> ModuleClassLoader will almost certainly wind up being final.

I would strongly recommend against that, as it would prevent OSGi from 
functioning in a modular environment.

The approach we had for JBoss Modules was to make most methods final, 
and have a constructor which accepted an opaque configuration object. 
Then the module loader implementation could specify a module class 
loader factory to use, which allowed subclasses to implement additional 
interfaces.

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- DML