The module system planned for debut in next year’s Java SE (Standard Edition) 9 platform will treat modules as a fundamental new kind of program component, with the system improving scalability and ...

Apache Ant, Apache Maven, Eclipse IDE, Gradle, Jenkins, and IntelliJ Idea don’t all yet support this key new capability in Java SE With the release of Java 9 in late September, Java went modular, to ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More The Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) version 9 is ...

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The latest version of the Gradle open-source build automation tool, just announced, comes with a number of upgrades, bug fixes, and highly anticipated support for building and testing Java modules, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. As things get better, they often get slower, making better things worse. Far too often, that’s ...

Java started its life in the early 1990s as an attempt to develop an architecture-independent language that could be used in consumer electronics and other embedded contexts. It found itself in the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I’m not sure if I’m alone on this opinion, but it sure seems to me that the deprecation of the ...

What to do with sun.misc.Unsafe in Java 9? One side says it's simply an awful hack from the bad old days that should be gotten rid of; the other side says its heavy use is responsible for the rise of ...