RFE support jar as modulepath argument

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2015/12/3 11:49 -0800, rfscholte at apache.org:
> On behalf of the Apache Maven team I'm working on the Plexus Compiler[1]  
> to support compilation of modules and I'm struggling with the  
> specification of the modulepath.
> 
> ...
> 
> To ensure that exactly the dependencies as specified in the pom.xml are  
> used (not more or less) without the need to copy files it would be my wish  
> to have -mp also support (jar)-files.

Thanks for the reminder about this.  As I may have mentioned to you when
we spoke at JavaOne, several tool maintainers have made this request.

RFE created: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8144665

- Mark