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Providing an automatic module name  #866

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@mthl

Since Java 9, Java provides a module system known as Jigsaw which allow library authors to restrict access of their internal packages and provide a better explicit dependency abstraction.

In order to benefit from this "new" feature, Java libraries need to provide a module-info.java file inside the jar artefact to declare what they requires and what they exports.

However since this can be non-trivial to become modular a important first step for library authors is to register a module-name to enable libraries depending on them to become modular without having to wait for modular refactoring work to be done. To register a module name a library simply need only to define the Automatic-Module-Name property in the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file inside their jar artefact.

I suggest that this library should register the module name com.google.maps.

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    triage meI really want to be triaged.
    type: feature request‘Nice-to-have’ improvement, new feature or different behavior or design.
    on Oct 26, 2022
  2. stale commented on Jun 18, 2023

    @stale

    This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. Please comment here if it is still valid so that we can reprioritize. Thank you!

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