Until all the driver's dependencies commit to names for their respective modules, the driver can not safely create a module-info.jar file that requires those modules. Currently the driver depends on SLF4J and Netty, and neither have yet released with module names (though SLF4J has a beta that is modularized).

But we can still make progress and help the community by adding an Automatic-Module-Name entry to the manifest for each jar file. This commits the driver to a set of module names that downstream dependencies can rely on when defining their own modules, and once the driver's dependencies have done the same, we can consider adding module-info.java into the mix.