A new proposal, iJAM, has circulated on the JSR-294 and modules-dev mailing lists suggesting some changes to the logic supplied in the strawman proposal for JSR-294 'superpackages' and receiving ...

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.

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.

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.

At the EclipseCon conference, Mark Reinhold, Java platform chief architect at Oracle, laid out the roadmap for Java 9, which could mean better modularity and new value types. Improved modularity could ...

Java will need modularity and multitenancy to work in the cloud, a Red Hat engineer argues Now that Java 7 SE (Standard Edition) has officially been released, Oracle and members of the JCP (Java ...

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 ...

Beyond Java EE 6, modularity will be key, according to the Oracle officials. OSGi, meanwhile, plays an important part of the Java ecosystem and Java platform overall, Harris said.