This fork allows Tomcat web applications to be written and run as Jigsaw modules!
If you put all your dependencies (including your own classes that have to be packed as a modular jar) into /WEB-INF/modules
of the resulting WAR file instead of /WEB-INF/lib then the jars will be loaded as Jigsaw modules.
Thus /WEB-INF/modules stands for complete analog of --module-path for web applications.
Note, that jars from /WEB-INF/lib are loaded in Unnamed Jigsaw module (regardless of this fork),
thus it is a complete analog of -cp for web applications.
So with this fork you can follow the same migration path as suggested by Jigsaw for -classpath applications,
gradually moving jars form /WEB-INF/lib to /WEB-INF/modules modularising your web application this way.
You may try my modular web application example with the fork to see that it actually works: https://github.com/pjBooms/modular-war-example
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