Feedback on proposal for #ReflectiveAccessToNonExportedTypes

[Alan Bateman]

On 08/07/2016 22:42, Paul Benedict wrote:

> :
>
> 2) Allow layers to control if non-exported types can be reflected. Perhaps
> the JDK sets its own layers to "false", but Containers and what they deploy
> can be separately configured, each.
>
>
A container or anything else doing dynamic configuration today provides 
the module finders and so gets an opportunity to re-write module 
descriptors if it really wants to. So if someone really wants every 
module in the configuration to export every package then it is possible. 
It's a bit of effort of course but it seems better than introducting 
inconsistencies into how core reflection does access checks vs. the VM 
and method handles.

-Alan