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.

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...