RFE support jar as modulepath argument

[Alan Bateman]

On 04/12/2015 12:27, Ali Ebrahimi wrote:
>
> Just as I said in another thread post:
>
> If we have module group concept and modules belong to same module 
> group loaded by same classloader then we can support splited packages. 
> This way each module group maps to each classloader.
>
> This will support test modules.
>
We've been down this road in the distant past with "requires local" and 
I don't think we want to go there again :-)

We've worked through many testing examples with the current design and 
prototype and haven't run into any major issues. The main thing to say 
is that TestNG, JUnit and other testing frameworks don't know about 
modules yet but we can get existing versions to work okay, it just needs 
command-line options that will look complicated at first, esp. when 
compiling or injecting test classes into existing modules. I think we 
should be confident that the tools and plugins will make this much 
easier in time. Just another reason why it's so critical to have tools 
and eco system working with us as the module system design (and 
implementation) moves forward.

-Alan