2018-06-16 16:04 GMT+02:00 Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org>: > On 2018-06-16, Gintautas Grigelionis wrote: > > > 2018-06-16 15:30 GMT+02:00 Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org>: > > >> On 2018-06-10, Gintautas Grigelionis wrote: > > >>> I would treating Java modules as Ant resources help in this scenario? > > >> What exactly - beyond using a module as a zipfileset - would you want > >> to do? > > > What about dependency graphs and service discovery? :-) [1] > > I'm afraid I'm too slow today. What exactly do you mean when you say you > want to support Java modules as Ant resources? > > An Ant Resource (the class in org.apache.tools.ant.types) is something > we can read from like a file or an URI and sometimes write to. I don't > think this is what you have in mind as we can already do that to a Java > module (which is a jar) and it is not related to dependency graphs or > service discovery at all. >
Sorry for not presenting the idea clearly because of time skip: if services would become a new mechanism for adding tasks, modules would be of help by providing an API to discover them. Since modules are a jar with a twist, it seems that they could be abstracted as resources if one would like to expose what's happening under the hood/bonnet. The question was more about whether that exposure would be useful (so that there could be ModuleSets, etc). Gintas
