An Oracle official expects the module system planned for Java 9 to bring improved scalability and performance to the popular enterprise platform
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 performance, a key Oracle Java
official says.
In a blog post this week,
Oracle's Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java platform group,
discussed the goals of the module system. Chief among them is reliable
configuration, to replace the "brittle, error-prone, class-path
mechanism" with a means for program components to declare dependencies
on each other. Strong encapsulation, which allows a component to declare
which public types are accessible to other components, is also a goal.
