Review Request: JDK-8174826 jlink does not provide support for linking in service provider modules

[Mandy Chung]

> On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:40 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 23/03/2017 17:04, Mandy Chung wrote:
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>> :
>> When linking with explicit providers via —-add-modules, would you think it may be useful to see the list of providers?
> For the most part then this will just print out the providers specified to --add-modules,

and all of their transitive dependencies. Basically listing the providers and used by the modules linked in the resulting image provides you the information and avoid the need to run `java —list-modules m1,m2,m3 to inspect the module descriptor, if it wants to confirm what providers are in the image.

> unless you are thinking about the less common case of a module that both exports an API and is a service provider module at the same time?

Not really in this context.

Mandy