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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
Content preview from Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

Understanding modular run-time images [JEP-220]

Java 9's modular system required changes to the runtime images for compatibility. Benefits of these changes include enhancements in the following areas:

  • Maintainability
  • Performance
  • Security

Core to these changes was a new URI schema used for resource naming. These resources include modules and classes.

A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is similar to a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) in that it identifies the name and location of something. For a URL, that something is a web page; for a URI, it is a resource.

There were five primary goals for JEP-220 and these are detailed in the following sections.

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