module-info.java just causes problems

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu May 12 17:13:22 UTC 2016



On 12/05/2016 17:47, Paul Benedict wrote:
> I think the interception would also solve the use case of Redhat's 
> Byteman. If the Layer can be given access to the Module Configuration 
> and before any classes in the Module are loaded (chicken-and-egg for 
> module-info.class?), then class transformation can be accomplished at 
> the same time.
>
Layer isn't the place for this. If you want to intercept or have the 
module declaration be in another format or have the module be packaged 
in other ways then you implement an appropriate ModuleFinder and specify 
it when creating the Configuration.

-Alan.


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