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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

by Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Breaking the monolith

Over the years, the utilities of the Java platform have continued to evolve and increase, making it one big monolith. In order to make the platform more suitable for embedded and mobile devices, the publication of stripped down editions such as Java CDC and Java ME was necessary. These, however, did not prove to be flexible enough for modern applications with varying requirements in terms of functionality provided by the JDK. In that regard, the need for a modular system came in as a viral requirement, not only to address modularization of the Java utilities (overall, more than 5000 Java classes and 1500 C++ source files with more than 25,0000 lines of code for the Hotspot runtime), but also to provide a mechanism for ...

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