some basic questions about the module system concept

[Alan Bateman]

On 22/09/2015 08:32, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am still not sure this is the right list to ask those things, but I 
> guess you guys will tell me if there is a better place.
>
> First of all I was looking for a graph or something alike that shows 
> what modules are supposed to be visible to applications. Couldn't 
> easily find that. But I would assume anything in com.sun is not.
>
Do you build the prototype in the jigsaw/jake forest? If so then then 
the gengraphs directory in the build output will probably help you on 
this topic.

In particular, the build generates a module-summary.html that is a table 
that summarizes both the proposed standard and JDK-specific modules. 
That summary has the API packages exported by each module. Some 
JDK-specific modules don't export any API packages because they are 
service provider modules or just API-less tools.  I expect this table 
will be useful to the JSR for Java SE 9 once it gets to define the 
standard modules. There is also a .dot for each module so you can 
visualize the graphs too.

Another easy way to list the observable modules in the prototype is 
"java -listmods", drill down by specifying the module name as 
sub-options ("java -listmods:java.se" for example).

-Alan.