jlink and automatic modules

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Sun Mar 6 09:49:23 UTC 2016


On 05/03/2016 19:50, forax at univ-mlv.fr wrote:
> :
> if there are jars (with no module metadata) in the modulepath and in the classpath,
> what about having everything in the modulepath (module and jars), nothing in the classpath and use the unamed modules only in scenarios where currently we use default package.
>
It may not be possible to move all JAR files from the class path to the 
module path. Split packages will the biggest issue. The main advantage 
of automatic modules is that you can make progress on migration to 
modules while leaving significant chaos on the class path.

-Alan.


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