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Subject: Re: Strategy for jmod (Jigsaw)?
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 03:54:27 +0200
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I haven't really looked at it myself. I don't know for others.
AFAIK, there is no shared strategy, I don't remember even of sharing op=
inions=20
on this: busy on other topics

But yes, we'll need to have a strategy about it.

Did you try to see how things could be harmonized?

Regards,

Herv=E9

Le jeudi 16 mai 2013 23:42:34 J=F6rg Hohwiller a =E9crit :
> Dear Maven developers,
>=20
> is there already some slight inital draft or idea for a strategy how
> maven x.y could deal with jigsaw?
> How could this be harmonized and go together?
> Or will this create an entirely new universe?
> The concepts seem to be quite similar. Some features should be
> compatible but various things are not.
> Do you have your crystal balls ready and can give a little insight?
>=20
> For those that have no idea what I am talking about.
> Jigsaw is a JSR project aiming to modularize the JDK.
> Initially it was planned only as a technology to be used internally b=
y
> the JDK
> but it is now the be the new module system for java.
> The successor of the good old JAR is the JMOD file.
> The analogon for pom.xml is module-info.java that gets bundeled diret=
ly
> into the JMOD
> but can be read uncompressed from the head of the file.
> module-info.java only addresses identification (module name and versi=
on
> - instead of groudId, artifactId and version)
> as well as dependencies. But does not other aspects addressed by pom.=
xml.
>=20
> Project Jigsaw also defines repositories and stuff like that so there=
 is
> some sort of compatition with maven, gradle, buildr, OSGi, etc.
> I am quite unsure where this journey is going to.
>=20
> Jigsaw was planned for Java6, 7, and also failed to make it into Java=
8.
> However, it will surely make it into Java9.
>=20
> Thanks
>    J=F6rg

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