Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of Java, took the stage during this year's keynote address at JavaOne to provide an update about Java 9. His JavaOne 2017 presentation highlighted the work his team put ...

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Famous philosopher George Santayana once said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." In the case of the Java Platform Module System (JPMS), the past has most certainly ...

The module system introduced in Java 9 makes it easier to organize your code. Here’s a brief guide to working with modules in Java Until Java 9, Java’s top-level code organization element had been the ...

The kernel puts limits on which functions can be used from a loadable module. But instead of an all-or-none approach, one plan would create access control lists of which modules are allowed to use ...

Here's a quick look at the three types of class loaders and everything you need to know to work with them in your Java programs. Java class loaders are a component of the Java virtual machine (JVM) ...