Defining open modules and packages

[Claes Redestad]

Hi Christian,

could it be that you've downloaded the regular EA build 146 rather than 
the jigsaw EA build 146[1]?

The changes enabling the new "open" keyword is set to appear in the 
regular EA builds starting from build 148 (from there on out I hope 
there'll be less difference between the regular EA builds and the jigsaw 
ones).

Thanks!

/Claes

[1] https://jdk9.java.net/jigsaw/

On 2016-12-06 12:34, Christian Frommeyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I heard a lot about jigsaw at Devoxx Belgium this year and got curious what is in the new module system for us. I downloaded ea build 146 and started to experiment. So far it was mostly straight forward. But now I'm struggeling to get open modules (and packages) to work. I tried the syntax described here:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jigsaw/spec/lang-vm.html
>
> This is also what was presented in various talks at Devoxx. However when trying to compile the module-info file I get this error:
>
> Compiling... src/moduleopen/module-info.java:1: error: class, interface, or enum expected
> open module moduleopen {
> ^
> 1 error
>
> Unfortunately I wasn't able to find any documentation on a change in syntax. I only found this:
>
> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/doc/lang-vm.html
>
> which seems to be a different version of the above. But I wasn't able to match what might be the right alternative for open here. Perhaps someone can clarify this and perhaps even help with some link to documentation on this.
>
> Regards
> Christian Frommeyer
>