Jigsaw is an effort to turn Java into a more modular stack, including a module subsystem to help make the programming language more efficient.

Java is set to take on a more modular approach with the planned Java SE Development Kit 7 upgrade to the platform, Sun announced.

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

Java, the 14-year-old language and application platform founded by Sun Microsystems, is set to take on a more modular approach with the planned Java SE Development Kit 7 upgrade to the platform ...

1Java Moving Forward With Faster Pace Release Schedule, Modular System Among the key messages and themes that emerged at the JavaOne 2017 conference, held in San Francisco Oct. 1 to 5, is that the ...

Java, JavaScript and Python are invariably the three most popular programming languages in several indexes, but their exact order varies depending on how the ranking is calculated. Lately most ...

The next version of Java will feature modularity, a controversial feature which promises performance and scalability benefits.

Amid a budding controversy surrounding the module system planned for Java, Oracle’s chief Java architect, Mark Reinhold, lashed out today at Red Hat and IBM’s opposition, saying the companies ...

The first early access builds of JDK 9 with Project Jigsaw, the initiative that's bringing modularity to the Java platform, are now available for download.