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  2. JDK-8178380

Module system implementation refresh (5/2017)

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        The changes in this update are:

        - Ensure non-upgradeable modules cannot be upgraded even with --patch-module (originally tracked as JDK-8177844)

        - Split `java --list-modules` option into `--list-modules` and `--describe-module`.

        - Update `jar` and `jmod` tool so that their `--describe-module` output is the same as the java launcher output. For the `jar` tool then this now works in conjunction with `--release` to describe modules in multi-release JARs.

        - Rename `-Xdiag:resolver` to `--show-module-resolution` and change output to make it easier to read and search.

        - New option `--validate-modules` to catch conflicts/errors on the module path.

        - Rename -Xlog `modules` tag to `module` and add module+load and module+unload. In addition `-verbose:module` as a simple way to enable logging of module load + unload.

        - Revised proposal for the "Disallowing the dynamic loading of agents by default" issue, specifically -XX:-EnableDynamicAgentLoading, change the hotspot provider for the Attach API to not attach to the current VM, and support for executable JAR containing a java agent.

        - Support dynamically loading of JMX and java agents into modular applications.

        - Allow default file system provider to be overridden when patching system modules or running with a module path.

        - Clarify Instrumentation::isModifableModule and equivalent JVM TI function to make it clear that it always returns true for unnamed modules.

        - Change Lookup.defineClass to not require PRIVATE access to be dropped.

        - Update ModuleFinder.of to ignore the Main-Class manifest attribute then it doesn't name a class in the JAR file.

        - Simplify support for target platforms, specifically ModuleTarget is now one value for the target platform, the jmod tool has a new --target-platform option to replace --os-name and --os-arch, and the top level release file created by the build+jlink now have a TARGET_PLATFORM property rather than OS_NAME and OS_ARCH.

        - Fix validation of module/package/class name to catch cases where a Java identifier in a name is a keyword, null or boolean literal, or underscore.

        - Fix ModuleFinder.of(Path...) to handle paths on custom file systems containing JAR files.

              alanb Alan Bateman
              alanb Alan Bateman
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