java.lang.module.ModuleReference

[Andrew Dinn]

Hi All, Hi Alan, Hi Remi,

I'm clearly only one short step behind Remi. I also just ran into this
change with Byteman-4.0.0-BETA1 (which works with jdk9-b148 but breaks
on jdk9-b151). I'm assuming that an implementor of ModuleFinder is
expected to subclass ModuleReference, profit from the protected
constructor to set the descriptor and location then implement their own
open() method to make the Reader behaviour available. I don't see how an
interface could do that.

I'll be pushing a Byteman-4.0.0-BETA2 release to maven central as soon
as I can get a working version packaged up.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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On 07/01/17 15:10, Remi Forax wrote:
> Hi all, hi Alan,
> i'm slowly updating all my codes to the jdk9b151 and i've discovered that ModuleReference is now an abstract class.
> 
> I see no issue with making it abstract, but why an abstract class and not an interface,
> i thought we have all decided to stop to use public abstract classes after Java 8 :)
> 
> regards,
> Rémi
>