RFR [9] 8170859 : Run time and tool support for ModuleResolution

[Alan Bateman]

On 08/12/2016 14:41, Remi Forax wrote:

> Chris,
> this patch is rather ugly.
> Patching the ModuleDescriptor is not a good idea, maybe it's means that we need a system of metadata associated with a ModuleDescriptor,
> the hash of a module (which is not part of the module spec but the OpenJDK implementation) can be also considered as metadata.
>
There is refactoring in flight that drops the JDK-specific meta data 
from ModuleDescriptor. Once all the pieces are merged together then it 
should look a lot better.

-Alan.