modulepath and classpath mixture

[Robert Scholte]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:23:25 +0100, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>  
wrote:

>
>
> On 17/03/2016 19:51, Robert Scholte wrote:
>> :
>>
>> To me it seems like the need for knowing the module name keeps  
>> returning.
>> This increases the need for a proper implementation of the  
>> maven-compiler-plugin as a multirelease JAR.
>> The pattern as shown during FOSDEM showed that the idea works, but it  
>> is not solid enough.
>> And the next question would be: can Maven (or actually Plexus  
>> ClassWorld) handle this?
>>
>> I'll need to work out the things to be done and try to get more Maven  
>> developers involved.
> Would it you take it from the source module-info.class or the compiled  
> module-info.class? The former would require a small parser. The latter  
> is not difficult with ASM.
>
> -Alan

I can do the former with QDox, for the latter I had JDK APIs in mind, but  
if ASM is an option too, that's an interesting option. Need to figure out  
how to do that.

Robert