On 14/03/2016 14:56, Paul Benedict wrote:
In the future, is an application server meant to dynamically create a JDK
module from an EE module (EAR, WAR, EJB JAR)? I am not asking anyone to
define a specification; just curious how they are envisioned to interact.
I would assume, that in time, EE will define something like modular WAR
or EAR. It might be that there are several modules in the same archive.
At run-time then the app server will use the API to create a
configuration (essentially the graph of modules for the application) and
then instantiate it in the run-time as a module Layer. The app server
creating the configuration would provide a ModuleFinder that knows about
WARs and EARs, it also gets to control the modules that are overridden,
say where a web app uses a different version of a JAX-* API to what the
container/app server ships with.
-Alan.
