Moving to Java 9 - module-info.class not found for <module-name> module

[Remi Forax]

As Alex said,
jackson.databind is not an explicit module.

You should report that issue to their bugtracker.

cheers,
Rémi

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Alex Buckley" <alex.buckley at oracle.com>
> À: "jigsaw-dev" <jigsaw-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Vendredi 1 Septembre 2017 23:06:16
> Objet: Re: Moving to Java 9 - module-info.class not found for <module-name> module

> On 9/1/2017 1:21 PM, Rahman USTA wrote:
>> java --module-path
>> %JAVA_HOME%/jmods;target\terminalfx.jar;target\dependency --add-modules
>> terminalfx -m terminalfx/com.terminalfx.AppStarter
> 
> (You shouldn't need the --add-modules, since terminalfx is already the
> main module.)
> 
>> It works normally. Then, I want to generate a jlink image with the
>> following script
>>
>> jlink --module-path
>> %JAVA_HOME%/jmods;target\terminalfx.jar;target\dependency --add-modules
>> terminalfx --launcher terminalfx=terminalfx/com.terminalfx.AppStarter
>> --output target/release
>>
>> However it gives me the following error;
>>
>> Error: module-info.class not found for jackson.databind module
> 
> I suspect jackson.databind is an automatic module. jlink does not
> support linking of automatic modules because they can rely on the
> arbitrary content of the classpath, which goes against the idea of a
> self-contained Java runtime.
> 
> Alex