A way to opt out of access restrictions on non-exported members.

[Alan Bateman]

On 16/11/2015 12:28, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> Access to private members of classes by reflection is indeed very,
> very common. I agree that JDK 9 needs to be cautious around this.
>
>
I think this thread is just highlighting the obvious tension between 
modules with encapsulation vs. serialization and other frameworks that 
need to break encapsulation. At this time then explicit modules have to 
opt-in to allow frameworks get access types in those packages. This can 
be done in the module declaration or at run-time via the API. The 
alternative is of course the all-powerful command line.

As regards setAccessible(true) then it would be nice to have it 
eventually go away in some future release. This would clearly require 
coming up with solutions to some difficult problems and use-cases.

-Alan