> All that work, which broke plenty of Java applications, violating main Java mantra of backward compatibility, all for nothing. How did modules break Java app

> All that work, which broke plenty of Java applications, violating main Java mantra of backward compatibility, all for nothing. How did modules break Java applications? Having recently upgraded a number of applications from 8 to 11, none of the things we had to fix were due to modules. They were largely due to libraries relying on internal implementation details of Java 8 which needed dealing with, the exact sort of thing that modules are looking to prevent going forwards (see "strong encapsulation" in TFA). We've ignored modules so far with no issues.