javax.inject module?

[Lance Andersen]

yes, I will be reaching out to them in the near future…

On Oct 4, 2017, at 2:54 PM, Tom De Wolf <tom.dewolf at aca-it.be> wrote:

> Indeed it looks like the @Inject api is quite an important jar to get migrated into an explicit module as other frameworks downstream will need it to be able to correctly migrate themselves. Can someone contact the spec leads or is there another communication channel on which the request is should be launched?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tom
> Op wo 4 okt. 2017 om 20:36 schreef <forax at univ-mlv.fr>
> 
> 
> De: "Lance Andersen" <Lance.Andersen at oracle.com>
> À: "Remi Forax" <forax at univ-mlv.fr>
> Cc: "Tom De Wolf" <tom.dewolf at aca-it.be>, "jigsaw-dev" <jigsaw-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mercredi 4 Octobre 2017 20:25:41
> Objet: Re: javax.inject module?
> Hi Remi,
> Sorry if my message was confusing.
> 
> it's not, it's my mind which is confused :)
> 
> 
> JEP 200, http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/200, defines that:
> 
> ——————————————
> Standard modules, whose specifications are governed by the JCP, have names starting with the string "java.".
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> JSR 330  specifies the  javax.inject package.  The suggested module name would be java.inject.
> 
> The hope is that the spec leads for JSR 330, will at a minimum update their API jar to include  the MANIFEST attribute Automatic-Module-Name
> 	Automatic-Module-Name: java.inject
> 
> This will help developers in the migration to modules.
> 
> thanks for the answer,
> Rémi
> 
> 
> Best
> Lance
> 
> 
> On Oct 4, 2017, at 2:13 PM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi Lance,
> i'm not sure you have the right to use java or jdk as prefix for your module, or do you mean "javax.inject" ?
> 
> Rémi
> 
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Lance Andersen" <Lance.Andersen at oracle.com>
> À: "Tom De Wolf" <tom.dewolf at aca-it.be>
> Cc: "jigsaw-dev" <jigsaw-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mercredi 4 Octobre 2017 18:37:53
> Objet: Re: javax.inject module?
> 
> You can grab the jar from maven central
> https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.inject/javax.inject/1
> 
> The JSR  can be found here https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=330.
> 
> I am hoping to try and get the JSR 330 spec leads to support updating the
> implementation jar with an automatic module name if at all possible. The
> proposed module name is java.inject
> 
> Best
> Lance
> On Oct 4, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Tom De Wolf <tom.dewolf at aca-it.be> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does someone know why the javax.inject annotations contained in for example
> the following maven dependency are not part of the jdk?
> 
> <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.inject/javax.inject -->
> <dependency>
>   <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
>   <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
>   <version>1</version>
> </dependency>
> 
> Who or which dependency/jar can be used to depend on this set of injection
> annotations as an explicit module or a module with a reserved automatic
> module name? Who is responsible to tackle this for javax.inject?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tom De Wolf
> Architect
> ACA-IT Solutions
> Belgium
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Oracle Java Engineering
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> Lance Andersen| Principal Member of Technical Staff | +1.781.442.2037
> Oracle Java Engineering 
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