Creating modules with JDK8

[Alan Bateman]

On 29/11/2015 20:26, Simon Ochsenreither wrote:
> :
> How would we read these files when running on earlier JDK versions?
>
It depends on what the eventual format will be. In the current prototype 
then JMOD files are zip format so they can be easily opened with with 
the java.util.zip APIs and many tools.

In the case of module-info.class then ASM makes it easy. That is what 
the jar and jmod tools use to read and re-write it with additional 
attributes.

-Alan.