Module-system requirements

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

I've posted a first draft of a requirements document, here:

  http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/reqs/01

This is distilled from the draft Goals & Requirements document for the
overall modularization effort [1], omitting items that are beyond the
scope of the module system itself and rewording others as necessary.

As noted in the introduction, the intent of this document is to serve
as a set of guideposts for this EG.  The specification we produce will,
ultimately, satisfy all of these requirements.  After we finalize this
document it will certainly be possible to revise it, but the bar for
doing so will be relatively high.

This is the first draft, and I'm sure you'll all have many comments and
suggestions.  I'd like to finalize the requirements by the end of this
month (February 2015), so fire away!

- Mark


[1]: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/goals-reqs