The flagship feature of Java 9 will be the new Java Platform Module System (JPMS). Given the maturity of OSGi there were technical, political and commercial reasons why another Java module system ...

Java Jigsaw’s missing pieces Part of the Project Jigsaw melodrama came from the fact that both IBM and Red Hat had announced before the JCP vote on Java modularity that they were not going to support ...

But the new Java Platform Module System features need development tools to really take advantage of them. Here is where several key Java development tools stand in their modularity support.

Beyond Java EE 6, modularity will be key, according to the Oracle officials. OSGi, meanwhile, plays an important part of the Java ecosystem and Java platform overall, Harris said.

As Oracle has been prone to do for the past nine months, company officials Tuesday pledged a strong commitment to Java technology. They even offered glimpses of a modular future for the platform.