What does a qualified name mean for a module?

[Alex Buckley]

A module name has the same structure as a package name, so ModuleElement 
has the same shape as PackageElement: each inherits getSimpleName() from 
Element, and getQualifiedName() from getQualifiedName() from 
QualifiedNameable.

Alex

On 6/6/2017 7:24 AM, Jayaprakash Artanareeswaran wrote:
> Hello,
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> The newly introduced ModuleElement has two APIs to get a module's name, namely getQualifiedName() and getSimpleName(). The JLS, though says a module only has one name.
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> "A module name consists of one or more Java identifiers (§3.8) separated by "."
> tokens."
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> I also see this in the "JPMS: Modules in the Java Language and JVM":
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> ModuleName:
>    Identifier
>    ModuleName . Identifier
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> I am not really sure what a qualifier for a module is. In the given example
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> Module M.N {}
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> are 'M' and 'N' separate names and if so, what do they denote?
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> Jay
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