The Bidi dependency on java.awt.font.TextAttribute and java.awt.font.NumericShaper is problematic for our modularization effort.

At this time (early JDK 9) then the dependency is reflective:

sun.text.bidi.BidiBase
   ->java.awt.font.TextAttribute

sun.text.bidi.BidiBase
   ->java.awt.font.NumericShaper

and this is good enough for Compact Profiles in JDK 8.

This bug requests that this dependency be re-examined in the context of modules where the access to the java.awt.font fonts types will fail with IllegalAccessException because the base module does not require the desktop module. A possible approach is to replace the current use of reflection with a solution based on sun.misc.SharedSecrets.