Modularity is an important aspect of large Java systems. Build scripts and projects are often split up into modules in order to improve the build, but this is rarely taken into account at runtime ...

But the new Java Platform Module System features need development tools to really take advantage of them. Here is where several key Java development tools stand in their modularity support.

To ease migration to Java 9’s new modularity approach, Mark Reinhold, Oracle’s chief Java architect, proposed illegal reflective access, which would allow this access by default in the release ...

Java Jigsaw’s missing pieces Part of the Project Jigsaw melodrama came from the fact that both IBM and Red Hat had announced before the JCP vote on Java modularity that they were not going to support ...

“Modularity and true multitenancy within the JVM will be critical for 8 if Java will be dominant in the cloud,” Little said.

As Oracle has been prone to do for the past nine months, company officials Tuesday pledged a strong commitment to Java technology. They even offered glimpses of a modular future for the platform.