Module types
There are different types of modules:
Named application modules: This is a simple module that we can all create. Any third-party libraries can be application modules.
Platform modules: As we have seen, JDK 9 itself migrated to modular architecture. All the existing features will be provided as different modules, such as java.sql, java. desktop, java.transaction. These are called Platform Modules. All modules are implicitly dependent on the java.base module.
Automatic modules: A pre-Java 9 JAR, which is not migrated to modules, can be placed in a module path without module descriptors. These are called automated modules. This JAR implicitly exports all their packages for other modules and also reads other modules along with unnamed ...
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