June 2017
Beginner
1296 pages
69h 23m
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To help prepare the Java Platform for modularization, Java 9 removed several items from both the platform and its APIs. These are listed in JSR 379, Sections 8 and 9:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iris/se/9/java-se-9-pr-spec-01/java-se-9-spec.html
JSR 379 Section 8 lists the platform changes. These include removal of the Java extensions mechanism. Prior to Java 9, the extensions mechanism allowed you to place a library’s JAR file in a special JRE folder to make the library available to all Java apps on that computer. Classes in that folder were guaranteed to load before app-specific classes, so this was sometimes used to upgrade libraries with newer versions. In Java 9, ...
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