Java modules or automatic module names

[theigl]

Hi all,

I recently started to adopt Java modules in my application.

Maven currently complains very loudly about any libraries used that have no module-info or automatic module name. I was quite surprised that Resteasy is one of the libraries that has neither:

[WARNING] * Required filename-based automodules detected: 
 resteasy-core-6.2.11.Final.jar, 
 resteasy-core-spi-6.2.11.Final.jar, 
 resteasy-validator-provider-6.2.11.Final.jar, 
 resteasy-multipart-provider-6.2.11.Final.jar

My questions are:

• Is there a reason for this?
• Are there plans to fully modularize Resteasy?
• Or would you accept a PR that adds automatic module names?

[jamezp]

The biggest issue RESTEasy faces is it needs all the dependencies it uses to be modularized as well. It has been quite a while since I've looked, but there are a lot of the dependencies that at the time were not modules. For example, the Apache HTTP Client. There could be others now too, but we need to analyze each dependency to determine this.

[theit]

Any news wrt automatic module names and/or module-info?

[jamezp]

Nothing great to share yet. I'm hoping very soon to be able to look at this. The first step is analyzing what dependencies don't have module names yet, then I can come up with a plan to do something.

[jamezp]

As an FYI, I've got a draft up now #4903. I do plan on back-porting to 6.2 as well.

[jamezp]

This has now been done. Not quite as soon as I wanted, but it's done and will be in the 6.2.17.Final and 7.0.3.Final releases :)

#4903
#4908

[theigl]

🚀 Fantastic. Thanks @jamezp