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Modern Java in Action
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Modern Java in Action

by Alan Mycroft, Mario Fusco, Raoul-Gabriel Urma
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
19h 49m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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Chapter 14. The Java Module System

This chapter covers

  • The evolutionary forces causing Java to adopt a module system
  • The main structure: module declarations and requires and exports directives
  • Automatic modules for legacy Java Archives (JARs)
  • Modularization and the JDK library
  • Modules and Maven builds
  • A brief summary of module directives beyond simple requires and exports

The main and most-discussed new feature introduced with Java 9 is its module system. This feature was developed within project Jigsaw, and its development took almost a decade. This timeline is a good measure of both the importance of this addition and the difficulties that ...

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