Manually Adding exports to JDK Modules

[Richard Warburton]

Hi,

>> In his talk at Devoxx UK Mark Reinhold demo'd a command that allows the
> >> addition of custom exports for existing modules. So you can ask the
> module
> >> system to enable external access to a specific internal API. I can't for
> >> the life of me find any documentation about, any mention of in other
> talks,
> >> and the Devoxx UK videos haven't been released yet. I also can't find a
> >> copy of the slidedeck online anywhere. Does anyone have any information
> >> about controlling exports?
> >
> > The module system isn't in JDK 9 yet so there isn't any documentation to
> > point at just yet. We hope to start doing early access builds very soon
> > with a proposed design/implementation that will allow for discussion.
> > The get out of jail free card is currently named -XaddExport and I
> > assume this is what Mark had in the slide.
>
> Yes, that's the option I showed in the demo (it wasn't in the slides).


Thanks for the information, do you have any kind of expectation in terms of
schedule when things like the module system and jlink will get merged into
a public repo? Could it happen within the next month or are we talking
months away?

regards,

  Richard Warburton

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