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.

Java would be enhanced with the ability to succinctly import all packages exported by a module, under a proposal floating in the Java community. The plan would simplify the use of modular ...

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 ...