java.bytecode (or similar) module? (original) (raw)

dalibor topic dalibor.topic at oracle.com
Tue Nov 14 10:53:14 UTC 2017

On 14.11.2017 11:38, Remi Forax wrote:

Hi Volker, the easy anwser if the JDK do not include all packages of ASM

Yeah - Generally speaking, this is a way to reduce the potential maintenance surface of baked in libraries, since they are baked in for a specific, internal reason, rather than to be exposed externally.

In addition, as part of baking in a (part of a) third party library, you'd typically want to change the package names to eliminate the potential for conflicts on the classpath/modulepath, which makes it not very useful to expose as a public API (it was org.openjdk.org.objectweb.asm at one point in time for the internal ASM), as it requires users to adjust their code to work with the 'internal' version, rather than the actual one.

cheers, dalibor topic

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