Relationship between JDK modules and EE modules

[Alan Bateman]

On 14/03/2016 14:56, Paul Benedict wrote:
> In the future, is an application server meant to dynamically create a JDK
> module from an EE module (EAR, WAR, EJB JAR)? I am not asking anyone to
> define a specification; just curious how they are envisioned to interact.
>
I would assume, that in time, EE will define something like modular WAR 
or EAR. It might be that there are several modules in the same archive. 
At run-time then the app server will use the API to create a 
configuration (essentially the graph of modules for the application) and 
then instantiate it in the run-time as a module Layer. The app server 
creating the configuration would provide a ModuleFinder that knows about 
WARs and EARs, it also gets to control the modules that are overridden, 
say where a web app uses a different version of a JAX-* API to what the 
container/app server ships with.

-Alan.