On 10/08/2017 08:29, Oliver Siegmar wrote:
On 8/9/17 7:35 PM, mandy chung wrote:
ModuleInfoExtender is JDK internal API and not planned to be exported/opened.
New version of ASM supports module-info.class. You can probably try out ASM 6
alpha version for now.
Thank you for clarifying. So, an external library (ASM) is required to build
modularized Jar files — the JDK offers no built-in support for that (except the
JAR command line tool). I’m very surprised as I think it is JDKs job to offer
this functionality to 3rd party tools (as it does it with the compiler and
other aspects of building and packaging Java applications).
One thing to point out is that the jar tool CLI is a
documented/supported interface so you can use the j.u.spi.ToolProvider
API to find the "jar" tool and invoke it with the documented/supported
options. That provides another way to build or update modular JARs
without needing to use the j.u.jar API.
-Alan
