Impossibility for invoking Module::addReads(Module)

[Alan Bateman]

On 02/06/2016 13:53, Andrew Dinn wrote:

> :
>
>> Your #2 is good to explore. As I've mentioned in several other threads,
>> this is a possible way forward for some of the scenarios that have come
>> up in other threads. it may be that we have to improve support for
>> injecting new classes into existing modules. It's already possible with
>> low-level JVM TI/JNI of course, also possible in some cases with java
>> agents but not cases are possible yet without using Unsafe.
> #2 is no good for Java agents which want to (re)transform an already
> loaded class. That's not just an issue for dynamically loaded agents.
> Even when the agent is loaded on the command line it may need to modify
> a class which has already been loaded like, say, class Thread.
>
If we improve the ability to inject new classes into existing modules 
then it will work for agents loaded into a running VM too.

-Alan