An Oracle official expects the module system planned for Java 9 to bring improved scalability and performance to the popular enterprise platform.

Java 9 and Vert.x microservices are compatible for building applications, as showcased by this example application that implements a minimal, but working CI system.

Mark Reinhold Chief Architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle details what's new in Java 9 at JavaOne conference.

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.

Java SE 9 comes with more than 150 new features, including the long awaited, much debated module system, as well as improvements designed, Oracle says, to bring more scalability, improved security, ...

The long awaited Java SE 9.0 is releasing on September 21, 2017, and with it come some major changes, notably Java Platform Modules.

Modularity, which came with the Java SE 9 Platform release in 2017, brought a fundamentally new kind of programming component to Java—a module, which is a reusable group of related packages, resources ...

The Java Platform Module System was put in place with the release of Java SE 9, leading the way to decouple JavaFX from the JDK and make it available as a separate module, Oracle says.

Oracle recently slipped the expected delivery date of Java 9 from March to September 2017 – and this has not been the first such delay. The modules implementation is so core to the Java framework and ...

In addition, in Java SE 9, about 20 methods and six modules have been deprecated with forRemoval=true, indicating our intent to remove them from the next major Java SE release.