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The Java Module System
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The Java Module System

by Nicolai Parlog
July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
13h 56m
English
Manning Publications
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Appendix A. Class-path recap

A book discussing the module system of course focuses on the module path (see section 3.4). But the class path is still fully operational; and because you can use it side by side with the module path, it plays an important role during incremental modularizations. In other words, it still pays to know how it works.

A.1  Using the class path to load application JARs

Definition: Class path

The class path is a concept related to the compiler and the virtual machine. They use it for the same purpose: to search the listed JARs for types that they require but that aren’t in the JDK. (It can also be used with class files, but you can ignore this case for the purpose of learning about the module system.)

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