[jira] [Commented] (SUREFIRE-1262) Add modulepath support

["Tibor Digana (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tibor Digana commented on SUREFIRE-1262:
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[~aaime]
[~rfscholte]
Maybe this helps:
[ModularClasspathForkConfiguration.java|https://github.com/apache/maven-surefire/blob/master/maven-surefire-common/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/surefire/booterclient/ModularClasspathForkConfiguration.java]


The forked JVM does not start via MANIFEST.MF in booter Jar. Instead it starts surefire args file with Jigsaw attributes in TEMP. Is it this you want to have described in documentation?

> Add modulepath support
> ----------------------
>
>                 Key: SUREFIRE-1262
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1262
>             Project: Maven Surefire
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Robert Scholte
>            Assignee: Tibor Digana
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 2.21.0
>
>
> With the Jigsaw project Java9 is extended with a modulepath. This means that surefire should be executed in a different way.
> When working with a modulepath, the Classpath in the MANIFEST of the executable jar will be ignored, you need need to add everything on commandline. 
> Just like javadoc, the java executable has an {{@<file>}} option, where you can add arguments per line. So this is the new preferred way to build the module-path.
> IIUC for surefire it is important to add {{--patch-module target/test-classes}} (was: -Xpatch) which makes it possible to use the same packages as target/classes.



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