Reading binary data

[Ty Young]

>Maurizio,

>To be clear, I'm not advocating for the status quo, far from it. Since 
>you brought up Jigsaw, let's take as an example. In its current 
>incarnation, JPMS has been quite literally rammed through over 
>considerable opposition from the Java community:
>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/12/oracle_loses_jpms_vote/

The Java module system really was delivered half-baked even beyond the topic at hand. I’ve come into many situations where I want to make a variable or method only visible to internal API modules but couldn’t without making a mess of things. For a language that beats you over the head with the importance of encapsulation it’s pretty ironic that a language feature called “modules” doesn’t provide the appropriate means to encapsulate your code the way you want/need to. I don’t know specifically what Twitter found to be lacking in the module system, but they were generally right.

Panama makes this lack of functionality even more apparent as now you either have to expose Pointer objects as part of a high level API(may or may not be desirable) or separate those Pointer objects from the appropriate high level class and store them in some non exported package, which is *really* annoying and could be difficult to do at scale. 

But I digress, such discussion about the module system is probably better for the jdk-dev list. Brian probably won’t like the discussion but the current Java modules system really does need a V2 revamp, regardless of the reason.

>Samuel