Modularization is slated to be the key feature in Java SE (Standard Edition) 9, due in late July. But Java participants Red Hat and IBM have raised concerns that the base module plan could lead to ...

Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of Java, took the stage during this year's keynote address at JavaOne to provide an update about Java 9. His JavaOne 2017 presentation highlighted the work his team put ...

Oracle, which officially took on the big job of shepherding Java two years ago this month, is traveling bumpy roads lately, with its modularization and licensing plans for Java raising eyebrows and ...

This reminds me of the situation in the late 90s when Swing was added to the JDK (version 1.2 in 1998), Internet Explorer became the dominant browser that only supported Java 1.1 and suddenly users ...

Patterns and metrics will provide some guidance to locate the dependencies to be removed. They will help to identify important and critical dependencies. To measure the importance of a dependency, ...