Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform

Appendix AAdvanced Module System Techniques

This appendix will cover some aspects of module configuration and design in more depth than was needed to for most of the chapters in this book. Although there are quite a few examples in those chapters, the APIs and many concepts have mostly been discussed one by one, without any orchestration. And while each of the concepts—such as organizing architecture around modules, exporting some of module’s packages as public, having dependencies between modules, treating modules as regular or making them autoloads or eager ones, or using Lookup for their communication—is good and interesting and useful on its own, it is their mutual cooperation that makes these concepts shine. That is exactly why this appendix ...