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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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How modules fit into the Java landscape

As you can see from the following illustration, packages are comprised of classes and interfaces, and modules are comprised of packages. Modules are a container of packages. This is the basic premise, at a very high level, of Java 9's new modular system. It is important to view modules as part of the modular system and not simply as a new level of abstraction above packages, as the illustration might suggest.

So, modules are new to Java 9 and they, as you would expect, require declaration before they can be used. A module's declaration includes names of other modules in which it has a dependency. It ...

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