Extending java.base module

[Alan Bateman]

On 15/02/2017 16:01, Daniel Fuchs wrote:

>
> In that specific case it's not java.base that depends
> on java.security.jgss, but the application itself.
>
> So I would expect the application code to either require
> java.security.jgss, or some higher level module for that
> itself requires java.security.jgss, or jlink to be run with
> command line options that explicitly add java.security.jgss
> to the image.
java.security.jgss exports an API so it will be resolved by default when 
the initial class is loaded from the class path. In addition, it 
provides a SecurityProvider implementation and so will be resolved 
because java.base `uses java.security.Provider`. For the jlink case then 
you are right, it needs someone to know that the application might need 
to do SPNEGO authentication.

In any case, it's an example of how not to do things, and hopefully it 
will be cleaned up at some point.

-Alan