Modularize Maven ai.djl dependency by adding module-info.java

[davpapp]

Description

I'm trying to package my code into an executable with Maven via jpackage. However, I get an error during the jlink step of the process:
Error: automatic module cannot be used with jlink: ai.djl.api from file
ai.djl.api is an automatic module, meaning it cannot be linked. I know I can work around this by manually generating the module-info file, but doing so isn't easy.

Will this change the current api? How?
No

Who will benefit from this enhancement?
Anyone looking to package a Java application that uses the DJL API.

References

Stackover flow instructions on generating module-info.java from automatic module

[frankfliu]

@davpapp

It's not straight-forward to make DJL a fully modularized library. Many of our dependencies are not support module.

We have a demo application that shows you how to create a module application that depends on DJL.

I created a PR that support jlink/jpackage. The PR leverage https://github.com/beryx/badass-jlink-plugin plugin:

cd djl-demo/development/module
./gradlew jlink
build/image/bin/djl-module-demo

./gradlew jpackage