[jsr294-modularity-eg] iJam

[Alex Buckley]

Rok Strnisa wrote:
> JAM refers to the proposed Java Module System. That is, the  
> combination of JSR-277 (its Early Draft) and JSR-294 (its Strawman  
> proposal).

The paper raises two issues:
1) Sharing a type between two module definitions.
2) Selecting a type in a module definition when import policy and other 
artifacts cause multiple types with the same name to be available.

 From a 294 perspective, these issues do not arise because of the rule 
that a type can only be a member of a single superpackage. Indeed, the 
rule was expressly designed to keep things simple for a Java programmer 
who just wants to group related packages together.

If 277 adopts the new import policies in the paper, they can be 
expressed as annotations on a superpackage, as discussed in the 294 
thread "Capturing dependency information" a few months ago.

Alex