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.

It never rains but it pours! Get some background on the long and winding road to Java modularity, then compare the two specification requests vying for inclusion in Java 7: JSR 291: Dynamic ...

Now, former Sun officials can embrace Eclipse too. The upcoming Java Development Kit (JDK) 7 will feature modularity, thus offering benefits in performance, scalability, and packaging, Kaul said.

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 ...

Modularity is an important aspect of large Java systems. Build scripts and projects are often split up into modules in order to improve the build, but this is rarely taken into account at runtime ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

News EclipseCon: Oracle Pushes Java Modularization By John K. Waters March 24, 2010 Two executives from Oracle -- one veteran, one newly acquired -- kicked off the annual EclipseCon conference, ...