Famous philosopher George Santayana once said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." In the case of the Java Platform Module System (JPMS), the past has most certainly ...
News that Oracle Corp. plans to deprecate the Java browser plug-in in JDK 9 prompted a rousing chorus of "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" from the Internet last week. But the news came as no surprise. A ...
IBM, Eclipse Foundation, Red Hat, and others decide to stand out of the way of the controversial technology’s deployment in Java 9 Modularity, a key but highly controversial feature of the upcoming ...
Java 8 arrived earlier this year to much fanfare, including high marks for lambda expressions and JavaScript on the JVM via Nashorn. But not everything about Java 8 was a love fest, and core ...