Re:JDK 9 modules voted down by EC
by dfabulich on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @02:33PM
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> Meanwhile, significant incremental engineering benefits in JDK9 were being held back by this sweeping change; so now maybe we can just get a better JVM without breaking the world.
I think that was Jigsaw's biggest mistake: trying to build a strict module system that will allow modularizing the JVM and expecting that module system to be useful to Java developers, who are already using powerful userland module systems.
I frankly hope that the next iteration of Jigsaw just modularizes the JVM without exposing anything to userland.
Re:JDK 9 modules voted down by EC
by pulse7 on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @08:54PM
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This would be one possible step forward. Oracle would gain more time polishing everything and making it backwards compatible and when ready open it for everybody else.
I think that was Jigsaw's biggest mistake: trying to build a strict module system that will allow modularizing the JVM and expecting that module system to be useful to Java developers, who are already using powerful userland module systems.
I frankly hope that the next iteration of Jigsaw just modularizes the JVM without exposing anything to userland.