JEP 200: The Modular JDK

[Tim Boudreau]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Tim Boudreau <niftiness at gmail.com> wrote:

> probably starting from a "friend" API.  For example, NetBeans tried a
> convention of "org.netbeans.api.*" for modules with public API, and
> "org.netbeans.modules.*" for non-api stuff, but today you'll find plenty of
> modules that have public APIs yet are named "org.netbeans.modules.*"
> because their author couldn't predict a priori that there would eventually
> be an API.
>

To be fair, this problem exists in NetBeans because a module is the unit
that can be updated, so you can't rename a module a user might already have
or they can wind up with two versions of the same package trying to
coexist, with potentially nasty consequences.  That may be a non-issue here.

-Tim