Mutable modules
David M. Lloyd
david.lloyd at redhat.com
Wed May 18 13:23:54 UTC 2016
Related to #MutableConfigurations, in order to support dynamically
changing deployments for containers (including, I believe,
OSGi-compliant containers) where deployments are modules, it is
necessary to allow a module's dependency graph to be mutated at run
time. The behavior of such things in existing systems is such that any
already-loaded/linked dependency classes remain, thus such action is
usually only guaranteed to be "safe" when adding dependencies, or when
it can be somehow guaranteed that no lingering dependency classes exist,
or that such lingering classes can safely be ignored.
While this operation isn't 100% safe, it is supported by containers in
existence today, so should at least be considered.
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- DML
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