Issue: The JAXP+modules story is still a bit of a mess
David M. Lloyd
david.lloyd at redhat.com
Thu Mar 31 16:01:10 UTC 2016
On 03/31/2016 10:48 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 2016/3/11 9:50:51 -0800, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
>> 2016/3/4 15:06 -0800, david.lloyd at redhat.com:
>>> I'm not sure if this is just something that has not yet been gotten
>>> 'round to, but the way JAXP loading works has become somewhat less
>>> convenient.
>>>
>>> If you are a container author, and you need to supply your own global
>>> default JAXP implementation classes, your options are highly limited:
>>> you can rely on TCCL being set on every call to Xxxx.newFactory() (never
>>> going to happen 100% of the time in reality), or you can set the
>>> appropriate system properties and make your implementation visible from
>>> every class loader (something of the opposite of the kind of
>>> encapsulation that we have modules for).
>>>
>>> ...
>>
>> This is an issue for Java SE 9, and its forthcoming Umbrella JSR, rather
>> than for the module system itself.
>
> Further discussion on the OpenJDK core-libs-dev list [1] made me
> realize that this is, in fact, a problem that should be solved by a
> module-system requirement we previously recorded but have not yet
> addressed [2]. Since this is already an open requirement, there's
> no need to create a specific open issue for it.
Works for me.
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- DML
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