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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

Platform modularity

With Java 9, the entire Java platform, with every class in it, has been segregated and grouped into modules. Yes, all of the platform Java classes from Collections and Thread to Connection and Logger! It doesn't really matter which one; every platform class is now housed in newly created Java modules that come out-of-the-box with the runtime and the JDK. The platform team achieved this by going through both the public APIs and internal classes, grouping them based on the types that usually go well together and are self-contained, and bundling such related classes into modules.

Take Java logging for example. The native logging functionality in Java comprised of a group of classes in the package java.util.logging. These classes have now been grouped into a newly created module called java.logging. The JDBC and SQL related classes have all gone into a new...

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