Another clarification on module source spread across multiple locations

[Alan Bateman]

On 11/08/2016 05:50, Jayaprakash Arthanareeswaran wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> I also need a clarification on the following passage in JEP 261:
> /"In large systems the source code for a particular module may be 
> spread across several different directories. In the JDK itself 
> <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/201>, e.g., the source files for a 
> module may be found in any one of the directories 
> |src/<module>/share/classes|, |src/<module>/<os>/classes|, or 
> |build/gensrc/<module>|, where |<os>| is the name of the target 
> operating system. To express this in a module source path while 
> preserving module identities we allow each element of such a path to 
> use braces (|{| and |}|) to enclose commas-separated lists of 
> alternatives and a single asterisk (|*|) to stand for the module name. 
> The module source path for the JDK can then be written as/
> /|{src/*/{share,<os>}/classes,build/gensrc/*}|"/
> While the first sentence states spread across several directories, 
> later on it states ' /may be found in any _one_ of the directories/'. 
> Does "any one of" really mean "any of" ?
> Can you please confirm that it is indeed possible to specify multiple 
> directories at once for a specific module.
>
Jon would be the best person to answer this but "yes", the module source 
path specify multiple directories using this syntax. That is, the source 
code for a module may be in distinct directories. We have this in the 
JDK because there are platform specific classes, also a lot of source 
code generated at build time.

-Alan