Dynamic modules and bidirectional interoperation

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2016/10/28 8:41:41 -0700, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr>:
> De: "mark reinhold" <mark.reinhold at oracle.com>
> Envoyé: Mercredi 26 Octobre 2016 19:24:47
>> 2016/10/26 9:32:42 -0700, Thomas Watson <tjwatson at us.ibm.com>,
>> jpms-spec-comments:
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> Will there will be a specified order in which the nodes are traversed
>>> when there are multiple paths to a node?  More specifically will the
>>> parents have a specified order in which they are delegated to?
>> 
>> Yes, the parents of a new configuration will be specified in an ordered
>> list and during resolution they'll be searched depth-first, in the order
>> in which they occur in the list.  Depth-first order makes it easy to
>> reason about resolution, since it works just like a search path.
> 
> I fail to seen how this is not a mini-classpath with exactly the same
> issues as the classpath.

It's not a "mini" class path; it's more like a "mini" or "run time"
module path.  It's better than a class path because it's a means to
locate whole modules rather than individual types, as discussed in
SotMS:

  http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/sotms/#the-module-path

- Mark