To ease migration to Java 9’s new modularity approach, Mark Reinhold, Oracle’s chief Java architect, proposed illegal reflective access, which would allow this access by default in the release ...

Apache Ant, Apache Maven, Eclipse IDE, Gradle, Jenkins, and IntelliJ Idea don’t all yet support this key new capability in Java SE With the release of Java 9 in late September, Java went modular, to ...

Please see also Part 1: Java 9, OSGi and the Future of Modularity. This continues our deep-dive into OSGI and the Java Platform Module System (JPMS), scheduled to be released as part of Java 9.

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.

Oracle has shipped Java 9 and Java EE 8, including support for modularity in Java 9 and a host of other features in both specifications to simplify development.

Sander Mak explores the benefits of a modular codebase using Java 9 modules. After reviewing the basic concepts of modules, he looks at what it means to take an existing application to this new ...

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.

JavaOne, the annual gathering in San Francisco of Java jocks from around the world, has been replaced by a new event, dubbed Code One. Oracle is billing the change as "an expansion of tracks to ...