This is an interesting look at the problems faced in getting Hibernate to work. 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43258796/hibernate-support-for-java-9 
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43258796/hibernate-support-for-java-9>.

The issue with the compile problem with javax.xml are familiar to me - I had to 
modify some Log4j code to not use the DataType converter as it isn’t present in 
the java.base module.

Ralph 

> On Apr 22, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Oh - I just reread this. S far as I know Java 9 has a scheduled release date. 
> It is July 27.
> 
> BTW - here is the complete set of features - 
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/whatsnew/toc.htm#JSNEW-GUID-BA9D8AF6-E706-4327-8909-F6747B8F35C5
>  
> <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/whatsnew/toc.htm#JSNEW-GUID-BA9D8AF6-E706-4327-8909-F6747B8F35C5>.
> 
> Ralph
> 
> 
>> On Apr 22, 2017, at 10:45 AM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Let me play devil's advocate here for a sec...
>> 
>> Java 9 modules and this auto naming business sounds painful. Is there any
>> chance that this feature will be ignored like java.util.logging is or
>> should be?
>> 
>> Can we stop tying ourselves into unreleased pretzels over a moving target
>> since we do not know when Java 9 will be out.
>> 
>> Can't we refocus this energy on getting the best out of Java 8?
>> 
>> Ducking from incoming tomatoes,
>> Gary
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm a fan of splitting packages up better due to OSGi support in the first
>>> place. Hierarchical packaging is definitely something new (OSGi doesn't
>>> care about that; each package is considered separately), and it could help
>>> in making some classes more organized.
>>> 
>>> On 21 April 2017 at 14:55, Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2017-04-21, Ralph Goers wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I have not started work on this yet, but from looking at
>>>>> http://blog.joda.org/2017/04/java-9-modules-jpms-basics.html
>>>>> <http://blog.joda.org/2017/04/java-9-modules-jpms-basics.html> it
>>>>> seems we are going to have problems with a) plugins that are in
>>>>> different jars (modules) that use the same namespace and b) log4j-core
>>>>> as it currently exists.
>>>> 
>>>>> Item b is a problem because the module-info for log4j-core should have
>>>>> a requires ONLY for log4j-api. For example, I’m not sure how we can
>>>>> have an optional dependency on Jackson.
>>>> 
>>>> requires static module-name-of-jackson;
>>>> 
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jigsaw/spec/lang-vm.html section 1.1.1
>>>> 
>>>>   The requires keyword may be followed by the modifier static. This
>>>>   specifies that the dependence, while mandatory at compile time, is
>>>>   optional at run time.
>>>> 
>>>> Of course "requires static" captures this way more clearly than "require
>>>> optional" which was proposed intially
>>>> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/doc/topics/optional.html
>>>> 
>>>> :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Without knowing the structure of log4j too well I agree the strict
>>>> package hierarchies mandated by JPMS will be a problem. Probably for
>>>> many other projects with more than one artifact as well.
>>>> 
>>>> Stefan
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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