Optional framework dependencies: requires static vs automatic modules

[Alan Bateman]

On 03/02/2017 18:14, Juergen Hoeller wrote:

> :
>
> Was it intentional for "requires static" to work that way? Am I missing
> something? From my perspective, "requires static" means that the referenced
> module has to be present when compiling the declaring module... but not
> when compiling other modules depending on the declaring module.
>
I suspect what you are seeing isn't specific to `requires static` but 
rather a long standing issues where javac has needed the transitive 
closure to be observable when compiling any module. There are changes in 
jdk9/dev for jdk-9+156  (next week's build) that mostly fix this issue 
and it will be interesting to see if that addresses your concerns.

-Alan