8170987: Module system implementation refresh (12/2016)

Andrey Nazarov andrey.x.nazarov at oracle.com
Fri Dec 16 12:58:01 UTC 2016


Langtools changes look good.

—Andrey
> On 15 Dec 2016, at 00:46, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Folks on jigsaw-dev will be aware that we are on yet another mission to bring the changes accumulated in the jake forest to jdk9/dev. The plan this time is to bring the changes to jdk9/dev to make jdk-9+150.
> 
> The changes in this update are mostly for JSR 376 issues #VersionedDependences and #ModuleNameCharacters and so involve updates to the binary form of the module declaration. There is also some small changes left over from #IndirectQualifiedReflectiveAccess that we didn't include in the last refresh.
> 
> This update has the implementation of Incubator Modules (JEP 11 [1]), everything except the javac support. This was initially planned to push to jdk9/dev but was re-routed to jake to avoid needing re-work when merged with the changes in jake.
> 
> There is a bit of refactoring in the implementation in this update. We expect to do more on than, plus lots of clean-up, once all the feature work is out of way.
> 
> The webrevs with the changes for this update are here:
> 
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8170987/1
> 
> They are currently based on jdk-9+148 and will be re-based for jdk9/dev later this week.
> 
> One review note this time is to ignore the changes in ModuleBootstrap for DEBUG_ADD_OPENS, that is the only change in this webrev that is not proposed to move to jdk9/dev.
> 
> -Alan
> 
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/11
> 



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