AFAIK, the core JVM will still be modular. The disagreements were around how to expand that modularity out of just the JVM "kernel" and into user space. I'm no

AFAIK, the core JVM will still be modular. The disagreements were around how to expand that modularity out of just the JVM "kernel" and into user space. I'm not entirely sure what that actually buys, when classes are loaded only on demand anyway...