RFR [9] 8176772: jar tool support to report automatic module names
    Chris Hegarty 
    chris.hegarty at oracle.com
       
    Thu Mar 16 13:09:36 UTC 2017
    
    
  
> On 15 Mar 2017, at 17:30, Mandy Chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> ...
> provides and main class, if present. 
> 
> The modifier of ModuleDescriptor will have AUTOMATIC and so all packages are exported and open implicitly and not shown in the output which is okay.
This is a good idea. Here’s an example:
jar --describe-module --file describeAutomaticModule/foo.jar 
No module descriptor found. Derived automatic module.
module foo at 1.2-SNAPSHOT (automatic)
  requires mandated java.base
  contains foo
  main-class foo.Main
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Updated webrev:
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8176772.01/
-Chris.
    
    
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