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 ...

Get primed on the shortcomings of traditional modular programming in Java and find out how Project Jigsaw, OSGi, and Penrose could end up working side by side in Java 9.

Please see also Part 1: Java 9, OSGi and the Future of Modularity. This continues our deep-dive into OSGI and the Java Platform Module System (JPMS), scheduled to be released as part of Java 9.

Sander Mak explores the benefits of a modular codebase using Java 9 modules. After reviewing the basic concepts of modules, he looks at what it means to take an existing application to this new ...

Java 9 could introduce modularity and new value types. Improved modularity could reduce app size and improve startup performance. New value types will make it easier to program arrays.

Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, provided a demonstration of the need for the biggest innovation in Java 9—modularity.

And Java toolmakers like JetBrains are making fundamental changes of their own to support a modularized Java 9. JetBrains Developer Advocate Trisha Gee announced the new support on the company blog.

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 ...