Java 9 High Performance

Quick introduction to modules

I am sure that after reading about the modular platform, you must be excited to dive deep into the module architecture and see how to develop one. Hold your excitement please, I will soon take you on a journey to the exciting world of modules.

As you must have guessed, every module has a property name and is organized by packages. Each module acts as a self-contained unit and may have native code, configurations, commands, resources, and so on. A module's details are stored in a file named module-info.java, which resides in the root directory of the module source code. In that file, a module can be defined as follows:

module <name>{
}

In order to understand it better, let's go through an example. Let's say, our ...