Optional framework dependencies: requires static vs automatic modules

[Juergen Hoeller]

For "requires static" specifically, this effect is quite dramatic since it
makes the optional runtime dependency feature useless for a large number of
target scenarios.

Alright, I'll re-test against build 156+ then.

Juergen


On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 8:07 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
wrote:

> 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
>