RFC: enable demodularized operation?

[Ben Evans]

Hi Attila,

I'd like to put forward a counterargument: Why would this be a good
use of time? Nashorn SO requires at least Java 15, so it will never
need to run on a pre-modular runtime.

Rather than spending effort on making it run as a non-modular JAR, I
would argue that getting to the bottom of why it's not working with
Spring Boot (and potentially providing fixes, whether into Nashorn or
SB) is a better use of limited resources - both now and in terms of
ongoing maintenance.

Cheers,

Ben

On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 12:55, Attila Szegedi <szegedia at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I’ve been thinking about the issue where Spring Boot isn’t loading Nashorn as a module, and was wondering if it’d make sense to put some effort into allowing Nashorn to operate when loaded as a non-modular JAR. Thoughts?
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> Attila.
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