Layers and NoClassDefFoundError

[Alan Bateman]

On 12/10/2015 21:44, Nicolai Parlog wrote:
> :
>
> For the first layer 'parentLayer' is 'Layer.boot()', for the second
> it's the first.
Can you paste in the code that creates the ModuleClassLoader for the 
second Layer? I'm curious to see if you have used the 2-arg constructor 
to specify the first as the parent.

>
> Then I add a read edge from the module that runs all this to the one
> in the second layer that contains the code I actually want to execute.
> Finally I access the code I actually want to run (in the second layer)
> and invoke it. I then get a NoClassDefFoundError for a class that is
> present in the first layer.
>
> I tried adapting the 'parentLayer' to be used as the 'beforeFinder' in
> 'Configuration.resolve' instead of 'ModuleFinder.empty()' but that
> gave me a 'LayerInstantiationException' ("Module java.base is already
> defined").

The beforeFinder is for overriding a module with a different version. It 
sounds like you have ended up trying to override the modules in the boot 
layer and you probably don't want to do that.

-Alan.