On 26.07.2016 09:11, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 26/07/2016 07:58, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
Hi all,
when I tried the Groovy build jigsaw about 2 months ago the usage of
com.sun.tools.javac.Main required me to make the module it was defined
in to be accessible for the unnamed module. In the latest version I
tried this was not required anymore, which was I think JDK9 b128.
Did I use a JDK in which this was not enforced or is there a change
for com.sun.tools.javac.Main?
PS: I know I should not use this class and I was about to change this,
when I noticed that I am missing the error messages about this.
The javac man page documents the entry point com.sun.tools.javac.Main
(the "old interface") and com.sun.tools.javac continues to be exported.
I don't recall a time when it wasn't exported. Jon or Jan might know
more about this. In any case, maybe it is time to move to javax.tools?
Around April 10 this year I had to use
-XaddExports:jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api=ALL-UNNAMED to get
access using the jigsaw build, which means there was a module
jdk.compiler, that did not export this class.
bye Jochen
