"The unnamed module reads every other module."

Alex Buckley alex.buckley at oracle.com
Tue Jun 6 21:40:52 UTC 2017


On 6/6/2017 2:28 PM, Stephan Herrmann wrote:
> SOTMS says: "The unnamed module reads every other module."
>
> I am unable to find any similar statement in any specification.
> Where should I be looking?

The unnamed module is never resolved, so it doesn't feature in the 
reworked spec for Resolution in java.lang.module. Instead, the 
dependences and exports of unnamed modules are specified in new text in 
JLS 7.7.5 and JVMS 5.3.6.

Alex


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