An Oracle official expects the module system planned for Java 9 to bring improved scalability and performance to the popular enterprise platform.

Java 9 and Vert.x microservices are compatible for building applications, as showcased by this example application that implements a minimal, but working CI system.

Mark Reinhold Chief Architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle details what's new in Java 9 at JavaOne conference.

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.

Java SE 9 comes with more than 150 new features, including the long awaited, much debated module system, as well as improvements designed, Oracle says, to bring more scalability, improved security, ...

The long awaited Java SE 9.0 is releasing on September 21, 2017, and with it come some major changes, notably Java Platform Modules.

Oracle recently slipped the expected delivery date of Java 9 from March to September 2017 – and this has not been the first such delay. The modules implementation is so core to the Java framework and ...

A new zSeries module serves as a dedicated processor for Java applications and debuts in time for the 40th anniversary of the mainframe.

Oracle has shipped Java 9 and Java EE 8, including support for modularity in Java 9 and a host of other features in both specifications to simplify development.

Software development toolmaker JetBrains has added support for Jigsaw in the latest release of its popular IntelliJ IDEA IDE, the company announced this week. Among other things, the new version, ...