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Modular Programming in Java 9

You're reading from   Modular Programming in Java 9 Build large scale applications using Java modularity and Project Jigsaw

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126909
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Koushik Srinivas Kothagal Koushik Srinivas Kothagal
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Preface 1. Introducing Java 9 Modularity 2. Creating Your First Java Module FREE CHAPTER 3. Handling Inter-Module Dependencies 4. Introducing the Modular JDK 5. Using Platform APIs 6. Module Resolution, Readability, and Accessibility 7. Introducing Services 8. Understanding Linking and Using jlink 9. Module Design Patterns and Strategies 10. Preparing Your Code for Java 9 11. Migrating Your Code to Java 9 12. Using Build Tools and Testing Java Modules

Migrating libraries

We've looked at steps and strategies to follow when migrating applications to the Java modules. How about libraries? Let's say you are the maintainer of an open source library that is used by many people. Or, perhaps, you maintain a library that's used by multiple teams in your organization. How would you migrate such a code base? Wouldn't that require you to follow the same steps we've covered to migrate applications? Well, mostly yes. However, there are certain things you need to do differently with libraries. This section covers those details.

What's perhaps the biggest difference with libraries is that you no longer work in the context of an application. A library could be used by multiple applications. These applications could be using multiple versions of Java. How could you create a single library JAR that could work for...

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