GitHub user varunnvs92 opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-core/pull/65
Add Automatic-Module-Name in manifest
Add Automatic-Module-Name in manifest so Java9 modular applications can
depend on this library.
It is recommended for java libraries in public repositories like Maven
Central to add Automatic-Module-Name manifest entry. This allows the consumers
of the library to move to Java 9 modularization and depend on the
Automatic-Module-Name value instead of the name derived from the Jar file. This
way, your consumers won't need to make changes when your library is eventually
converted to a Java 9 module.
Adding Automatic-Module-Name doesn't affect any code and will simply make a
name reservation until an actual module-info.java will be added eventually.
More details can be found in this
[article](https://dzone.com/articles/automatic-module-name-calling-all-java-library-maintainers).
[This
article](http://blog.joda.org/2017/04/java-se-9-jpms-module-naming.html) has
best naming practices for JPMS modules. But I could not go with
```org.apache.http``` (reverse dns package name) as all your modules use the
same base package name. I think ```org.apache.httpcomponents.core``` seems more
targeted. Let me know if you have better naming suggestions.
[AWS Java SDK v2](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java-v2) has a dependency
on httpclient library which transitively depends on this libarary. We are
adding module-info files to our library. But we need the Automatic-Module-Name
in both this library and
[httpcomponents-client](https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client)
library before we can move to JPMS. Please prioritize this issue and we request
a release with this change by mid June. If this is approved, I will send a PR
to httpcomponents-client repo.
I checked effective pom to verify that this change will still bring all
other manifestEntries from the parent pom.
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/varunnvs92/httpcomponents-core
AddAutomaticModuleName
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-core/pull/65.patch
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:
This closes #65
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commit 966ea678b8eb802cc6c217a8ad6b8512e6706b6e
Author: Varun Nandi <varunkn@...>
Date: 2018-05-31T19:22:58Z
Add Automatic-Module-Name in manifest so Java9 modular applications can
depend on this library
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