Accessing class files for named modules

[Alan Bateman]

On 02/05/2016 13:51, Rafael Winterhalter wrote:
> :
>
> I am aware that the idea of project Jigsaw is encapsulation but for
> scenarios like the above, it is often required to break module bondaries.
> In general, I think that project Jigsaw solved this problem elegantly but
> changing this single method's contract broke all 26 projects that I looked
> into before giving this feedback. Note that I only changed runtime as this
> contract change also affects "old" code running on a Java 9 VM as the JVM
> classes are now contained in runtime modules where
>
This is #ClassFilesAsResources [1], or more generally 
#ResourceEncapsulation [2], on the JSR issues list. In due course then 
I'm sure Mark will bring a proposal to the jpms-spec-experts list on 
these issues. We don't want to make any changes to the API or 
implementation in this area before then.

-Alan.

[1] 
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/issues/#ClassFilesAsResources
[2] 
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/issues/#ResourceEncapsulation