Hi Gunnar, you can use --patch-module to add your plugin inside jdk.jlink if you want to experiment.
Rémi ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Gunnar Morling" <gun...@hibernate.org> > À: "Alan Bateman" <alan.bate...@oracle.com> > Cc: "jigsaw-dev" <jigsaw-dev@openjdk.java.net> > Envoyé: Lundi 20 Novembre 2017 22:56:35 > Objet: Re: Resolution exception when service interface gets exposed via > --add-exports > I see, thanks for the clarification. > > It's a pity, though, I hoped to employ that approach for providing a custom > jlink plug-in (implementation of jdk.tools.jlink.plugin.Plugin). So it > seems that's not possible until jdk.jlink exports j.t.j.plugin? Are there > any plans to do so some time soon? > > Even if it was marked as experimental/incubating, being able to provide > custom jlink plug-ins would enable interesting use cases. > > 2017-11-20 22:24 GMT+01:00 Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com>: > >> On 20/11/2017 21:04, Gunnar Morling wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm having one module which defines a service interface but does not >>> export >>> that interface's package. In another module I wish to create an >>> implementation of that service, which should be possible via >>> --add-exports. >>> >>> I can successfully compile that second module, but running it fails: >>> >>> Error occurred during initialization of boot layer >>> j.l.m.ResolutionException: Module com.example.b does not read a >>> module >>> that exports com.example.a >>> >>> It seems as if the service binding happens before the --add-exports of the >>> java invocation is processed. Please see below for the steps to reproduce. >>> >>> Is it a bug or am I trying to do something unsupported here? >>> >>> At run-time, the --add-reads/--add-exports options are the equivalent of >> the module invoking addReads or addExports. So yes, they come into effect >> after resolution and service binding (and so after the resolution >> consistency check that detects that a module uses a service type in a >> package that isn't exported by anyone to the module). >> >> -Alan