Unsafe and AwkwardStrongEncapsulation

[Jochen Theodorou]

On 04.11.2016 09:12, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 04/11/2016 08:05, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
>
>> Since Unsafe was mentioned here... All the ways I did know to get to
>> Unsafe required reflection on private members. Afaik
>> #AwkwardStrongEncapsulation will block that. So how can I still use
>> Unsafe in the future or did it get some "proper" public way to get
>> hold of an Unsafe by now and I missed that?
> I think you are looking for JEP 260 [1]. The critical internal APIs
> where it lists the "critical internal APIs" that are not encapsulated in
> JDK 9. If you are using the Jigsaw EA builds then look at `java
> --list-modules jdk.unsupported` where you'll see that sun.misc (and
> sun.reflect) are both exported and open.
>
> -Alan
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/260

I see

> module jdk.unsupported {
>
>     exports sun.misc;
>
>     exports sun.reflect;
>
>     exports com.sun.nio.file;
>
> }

That won´t get me access to private fields and constructors in Unsafe 
with AwkwardStrongEncapsulation, right? So I see exported, but I don´t 
know what you mean with "open" here. I thought we do not have open 
modules yet... if we have, I missed the way to declare them and what 
they now actually do.

bye Jochen