The module system planned for debut in next year’s Java SE (Standard Edition) 9 platform will treat modules as a fundamental new kind of program component, with the system improving scalability and ...

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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 ...

Java started its life in the early 1990s as an attempt to develop an architecture-independent language that could be used in consumer electronics and other embedded contexts. It found itself in the ...

The Chief Architect of Oracle's Java Platform Group, Mark Reihold, is asking for a six-month extension of the Java 9 release schedule. The reason: Jigsaw, of course. Despite the "good progress" made ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. As things get better, they often get slower, making better things worse. Far too often, that’s ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I’m not sure if I’m alone on this opinion, but it sure seems to me that the deprecation of the ...

The latest version of the Gradle open-source build automation tool, just announced, comes with a number of upgrades, bug fixes, and highly anticipated support for building and testing Java modules, ...