Java Platform Module System

[Alex Buckley]

On 4/24/2017 5:22 PM, Stephan Herrmann wrote:
> Obviously, defining JPMS is not done in index.html itself but delegated
> to individual documents.
>
> One of the linked documents is a version of JLS with changes on behalf
> of JSR 376.
>
> Jay's question was triggered by the observation that this exact version
> of JLS contains references like these:
>   - "the host system must use the Java Platform Module System to
> determine ..."
>   - "A 'dependency' is the module resolved by the Java Platform Module
> System
>     for a given requires directive."
>   - "The Java programming language does not distinguish between named
> modules
>     specified explicitly in module declarations versus named modules
> specified by the
>     Java Platform Module System when it detects a JAR file on the
> modulepath
>     ('automatic modules')"
>
> This creates the impression that for implementing a compiler for JPMS
> another document must be consulted in addition to JLS, but the
> reference "specified by the JPMS" gives no clue were to look, as it
> appears inside the specification ofJPMS.

Dependency resolution in JPMS is accomplished by the static 'resolve' 
method of java.lang.module.Configuration.

Alex