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Fix the Modularity business properly! Please simplify and make a standard system that most people can get behind. While Jigsaw started out ambitiously, I attend

Fix the Modularity business properly! Please simplify and make a standard system that most people can get behind. While Jigsaw started out ambitiously, I attended some of the initial meetings and the scope was....awesome. Then it scaled back to a re-org of the rt.jar to make it easy to run on mobile devices (Ironically we are seeing the full circle - Java started out as a Set-top box language, then graduated to an enterprisey kitchen-sink and now wants to come back to a modular approach). Now they seem to want to do some half-baked OSGI compliant approach. Have they used OSGI on medium/larger projects? There is literally no amount of money you can pay me to tackle something that hairy and complex.

xpto123 12y ago
So the whole JDK will be based on modules that might or not be included in potentially different profiles (for example a Java ME equivalent?), or has that been dropped ? I remember seeing something about that in a presentation a few years ago. I think it's a good decision from Oracle to not include much more (compared to Jigsaw) in Java 9, given the huge scope of the Jigsaw change, which might probably be the change with the largest internal code impact so far ever done in Java, or at least one of the largest (if the plan to refactor the JDK for modules goes further).