Summary

--add-exports in javac currently implies readability. This is not intended and will be fixed so that --add-reads will be needed to inject readability in some cases.

Problem

Consider compilation of two modules:

ma/module-info.java
    module ma {}

ma/a/A.java
    package a;
    public class A {}

mb/module-info.java
    module mb {}

mb/i/I.java
    package i;
    public class I { a.A a; }

Currently, when --add-exports ma/a=mb is passed to javac, javac will successfully compile the modules, even though module mb does not read module ma. This is not intended; the compilation should fail unless either -add-reads mb=ma is passed to javac, or a requires ma; directive is added to mb/module-info.java.

Solution

--add-exports will be fixed to not imply readability.

Specification

--add-exports will inject exports directives to the source module, but will not change readability.