On 25 February 2015 at 13:30, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote: > Even in the modular world i will expect class scanning will be used. While we > can now iterate reliably over classes in the image i don't believe that > functionality is made available for classes in modules on the module path.
To be honest, being able to reliably iterate over classes in a module is the most interesting potential feature about modules in general. Its such an unreliable pain at the moment that it really needs tackling, and it is a very effective tool in application design in languages that have it (like Fantom). On 25 February 2015 at 16:27, Brian Goetz <brian.go...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 2/12/2015 5:59 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: >> I would expect IDEs to have some considerable work to do. > Agree on the "work" part, but I doubt it is "considerable". In Eclipse, there is a 1:1 mapping between a project and a JDK compiler/version. Same in Maven. And no doubt elsewhere. I don't think making that one to many instead is likely to be a particularly small change. Stephen