Bug #97683 Modularize the JDBC driver (JPMS)
Submitted: 19 Nov 2019 8:14 Modified: 19 Nov 2019 10:57
Reporter: Per-Ake Minborg Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:Connector / J Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.1, 8.0 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Triage: Needs Triage: D5 (Feature request)

[19 Nov 2019 8:14] Per-Ake Minborg 
Description:
Given the current trend of microservices and cloud deployment, the JDBC driver should be able to support the Java Platform Module System (JPMS) allowing small services being deployed with `jlink`, Docker etc.

How to repeat:
run `jlink` with `mysql.connector.java` gives:

Error: automatic module cannot be used with jlink: mysql.connector.java from file:///Users/pemi/.m2/repository/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.48/mysql-connector-java-5.1.48.jar

Same is true for 8.x.x releases

Suggested fix:
Add a `module-info,java` class and use multi-version JAR to support older Java versions while still allowing the module system for Java 9+ apps.
[19 Nov 2019 10:57] Umesh Shastry 
Hello Per-Ake Minborg,

Thank you for the reasonable feature request.

regards,
Umesh