RFR [9] 8176772: jar tool support to report automatic module names

[Chris Hegarty]

On 16 Mar 2017, at 13:09, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.

cut’n’paste error fixed inline.

> 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 (automatic)
>  requires mandated java.base
>  contains foo
>  main-class foo.Main
> 
> ---
> 
> Updated webrev:
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8176772.01/
> 
> -Chris.