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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

by Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Testing class-file attributes generated by Javac [JEP 235]

The lack of, or insufficient, capability to create tests for class-file attributes was the impetus behind JEP 235. The goal is to ensure javac creates a class-file's attributes completely and correctly. This suggests that even if some attributes are not used by the class-file, all class-files should be generated with a complete set of attributes. There also needs to be a way of testing that the class-files were created correctly, in regards to the file's attributes.

Prior to Java 9, there was no method of testing a class-file's attributes. Running a class and testing the code for anticipated or expected results was the most commonly used method of testing javac generated class-files. ...

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