RFR 8171380: Remove exports from jdk.jlink

[forax at univ-mlv.fr]

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> De: "Chris Hegarty" <chris.hegarty at oracle.com>
> À: "Remi Forax" <forax at univ-mlv.fr>
> Cc: "jigsaw-dev" <jigsaw-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mardi 17 Janvier 2017 10:36:32
> Objet: Re: RFR 8171380: Remove exports from jdk.jlink

>> On 17 Jan 2017, at 00:02, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> Cris,
>> it seems that there is a mechanism for API that are experimental in the jdk,
>> by example java.net.http uses this mechanism, is it possible to reuse the same
>> mechanism for the jlink plugin API ?
> 
> I did look at the possibility exposing the JLink Plugin API through
> an incubator module, but found that it would add complication to
> the code in order to refactor out the API to the extent where regular
> plugins could co-exist with custom plugins, while not having the
> jlink module depend on the incubator module. I discussed this
> offline with the jlink folk and they seemed to think that since this
> is a niche area, having to add --add-exports to was a reasonable
> compromise at this point, rather than the potentially more invasive
> changes that would be required to use incubator modules.

Ok,
it seems i'm the only one to have played with the plugin API :)

I think you can also load jlink in an empty Layer to workaround the lack of the exported package, at least at runtime.

> 
> -Chris.

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