Missing issue? - indexing

[Rory O'Donnell]

Alex,

Sure, I will try to reach out to them.

If you or anyone on the list has contacts they can share with me that
would be great.

Rgds,Rory

On 02/03/2016 21:54, jigsaw-dev-request at openjdk.java.net wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 11:05:33 -0800
> From: Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com>
> To: rory.odonnell at oracle.com, jigsaw-dev <jigsaw-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Subject: Re: Missing issue? - indexing
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> Rory,
>
> Could you please add Reflections and Scannotation to the Quality
> Outreach effort?
>
> The concern is not whether these tools understand the new JDK image or
> the modulepath. The concern is whether these tools make assumptions
> about the JDK's class loader hierarchy (Gradle was hit by this) and the
> JDK classes loaded by each loader (Eclipse was hit by this).
>
> Alex
>
> On 3/2/2016 4:40 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
>> Tools like Reflections [1], Scannotaions [2] and many more [3] provide
>> the ability to find instances of annotations on the classpath. They
>> also provide the ability to find subclasses of an interface. This kind
>> of tooling is commonly needed by Java EE. Different tools use
>> different approaches to gather the information, but it is definitely
>> something that could be captured when building a module. At the very
>> least, it is important to ensure that these tools continue to work.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/ronmamo/reflections
>> [2] http://scannotation.sourceforge.net/
>> [3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/259140/scanning-java-annotations-at-runtime
>>
>

-- 
Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland