RFR: 8306707: Support pluggable image loading via javax.imageio

[Phil Race]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:29:30 GMT, Nir Lisker <nlisker at openjdk.org> wrote:

> It is at all possible to split the image loaders from the desktop module into its own? I would think it will be useful for more than just JavaFX.


That would still be dependent on the desktop module, so I don't see how that would help anything.
It would make the desktop module a tiny bit smaller, but not enough to really matter.

When the JPMS module graph was devised in JDK 9, there was a lot of thought put
into whether it made sense to break up the desktop module into pieces.
I wasn't 'involved' so I don't know exactly what was looked at but anything broken out
would have to be independent of the rest of the module or it wasn't worth it.
java.datatransfer was the only case that was done.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1593#issuecomment-2420388199