Specifying module paths

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Thu Jan 14 20:30:58 UTC 2016



On 01/14/2016 12:14 PM, Robert Scholte wrote:
> Igor Fedorenko says: "This is a very good proposal. My only suggestion 
> is to extend javax.tools CompilationTask API to take modulepath map as 
> in-memory parameter. Not a big deal, but it'll be silly to write 
> properties file to disk for it to be immediately read by the code 
> executed in the same jvm." 

Generally, javac has been converted to use java.io.file.Path internally 
and to allow use of java.io.file.Path in API signatures. Therefore, if 
you can provide a Path for an object in an in-memory file system, you're 
good to go, with no additional changes from javac.

-- Jon




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