JEP-238 & JEP-261 Coexistence

[Alan Bateman]

On 06/04/2016 12:47, Richard Opalka wrote:

>>
>> BTW: Just looking at the contents of your JAR file then it looks like 
>> this is the EE version of the Common Annotations. In that case you 
>> shouldn't need a multi-release JAR. Instead you should be able to put 
>> the module-info.class in the top level directory and deploy it on the 
>> upgrade module path.
> Yes I know. Our requirement is to support both JDK8 and JDK9 with the 
> same jar.
> Thus in my experiments I have javax classes compiled for JDK8 and 
> module-info.class for JDK9.
> Multi-Release jar was my first attempt, when it failed I did what you 
> propose above Alan.
and did this work? In this case then I would expect the same JAR file 
should just work on the upgrade module path with JDK 9 or via the 
endorsed standard override mechanism with JDK 8. In the case of the 
latter then the module-info.class will be ignored.

-Alan.