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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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Extension mechanism

The Java platform previously had an extension mechanism that gave developers the ability to make custom APIs available to all applications. As you can see in the following illustration, extensions are plugins of sorts, or add-ons to the Java platform. The APIs and classes in each extension are, by default, automatically available:

As the illustration suggests, Java applications have access both to the Java platform and extensions without requiring classpaths. This feature was depreciated in Java 8 and no longer exists in Java 9.

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