Java Platform Module System

[Alex Buckley]

On 5/1/2017 12:40 PM, Stephan Herrmann wrote:
> Asked differently: when it says
>       "Generally, the rules of the Java programming language are
>        more  interested  in  dependences  than dependencies."
> which are the aspects where the rules of the Java programming language
> *are* interested in dependencies?

I'm sorry that this attempt to be helpful -- to distinguish the popular 
term "dependency" from the actual term "dependence" used by the JLS -- 
is causing so much confusion. The JLS has always contained rather 
open-ended text intended to add color rather than to specify an 
implementation. But to answer your question: When we fix up readability 
in the API, I expect the JLS will then speak more about the dependencies 
which result from resolution and are more numerous than the dependences 
expressed with static 'requires' directives.

>>> - Another reference links "automatic modules" into JLS and will probably
>>>    link to ModuleFinder.of(Path...), right?
>>
>> This text is also an informative note. Automatic modules are
>> discovered through ModuleFinder.of, sure, and they appear in other
>> places in the java.lang.module API too -- but none of that is the
>> point of the note. The point of the note is that the developer
>> doesn't specify 'requires' any differently for an automatic module
>> than for an explicit module.
>
> You make it sound as if automatic modules are relevant only at runtime.

Huh? The JPMS is assumed to be present at compile time, not just run 
time. And automatic modules are a feature of the JPMS.

Alex