JEP 200: The Modular JDK

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2014/8/5 10:26 -0700, eric at tibco.com:
> Quick question: Why does this JEP need to make assumptions 4, 5, and 6?
> Seems like assuming existing classpath semantics is good enough for this
> JEP. Seems like these additional constraints just bring in a lot of text
> about re-exporting, when, for the purposes of modularizing the JRE & JDK,
> such technical details could be left to the module system, rather than
> here. Did I miss something?

These assumptions are driven by the goal of making the platform more
secure and maintainable:

  http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/goals-reqs/03#security--maintainability

- Mark