JDeps Mvn

Project Jigsaw brings strong encapsulation to Java 9, which will make many JDK-internal APIs unavailable and deprecate the others. JDeps Mvn is a Maven plugin that runs the JDK tool jdeps against your code base to warn you of problematic dependencies.

Redemption comes in four easy steps:

identify your projects’ problematic dependencies
create a plan to move away from them
prevent relapses
do the same for your dependencies

The plugin helps with 1. and 3.; 2. shouldn’t be too hard in most cases but 4. might be. (You can hire me if you need help for that.)

JDeps Maven Plugin 0.2 Released

nipa 07.12.2015
Posted in Tools Tagged Java 9, JDeps Mvn, Maven, Project Jigsaw

With the second release the JDeps Maven Plugin allows the creation of flexible exemptions from build-breaking. This enables a self-paced migration away from dependencies of JDK-internal APIs that will be unavailable in Java 9.

First Release of JDeps Maven Plugin

nipa 11.05.2015
Posted in Tools Tagged Java 9, JDeps Mvn, Maven, Project Jigsaw

The JDeps Maven Plugin will break a project’s build if it contains dependencies on JDK-internal APIs. This helps to prepare for Java 9, where these dependencies will be unaccessible.