Valid characters in a module name

[Alan Bateman]

On 05/01/2017 08:22, Ess Kay wrote:

>> No, that's not how it works at all ... Only container code will be
> creating or referencing such modules
> This may be true for JBoss & JEE modules.
I see "Java EE modules" have been mentioned a few times in this thread. 
Aside from the word "module" then I'm not sure that is is relevant to 
the discussion because the Java EE notion of modules is about naming or 
locating a bundle of EE components. We of course hope that a future 
version of Java EE will support modules but I think it's too early to 
know if this will involve funky modules names or not.

In any case then my understanding of the thread so far is that the 
configuration scripts for this tool don't currently allow class or other 
names that have been legal in class files for a long time (12 years?).  
If users aren't complaining them maybe keep the status quo with module 
names so that the configuration scripts only support modules names that 
are allowed in a module-info source file (Java identifiers separated by 
'.'). The chances of meeting a module-info.class with funky module names 
is low, at least for now. I realize that might not be completely 
satisfactory but I assume you will need to provide a way to encode the 
names of funky classes anyway some day, the problem is not specific to 
module names.

-Alan