Oracle's Business Components for Java (BC4J), part of Oracle's JDeveloper IDE, gives Java developers the tools to create and manage reusable Java components -- on Linux. (600 words) ...

Java class loaders are a component of the Java virtual machine (JVM) and are responsible for loading Java classes into memory at runtime. When a Java program is executed, one or more class loaders ...

With JPMS, however, because it's part of the JVM, you have a simple implementation path. First, developers can compile the modules (properly, one hopes), then tell the JVM how to resolve the modules ...

Modularity, which came with the Java SE 9 Platform release in 2017, brought a fundamentally new kind of programming component to Java—a module, which is a reusable group of related packages, resources ...

Eike Stepper, an independent software architect in Germany, said the idea of modules is not particularly new, because the basic principles have been available in OSGi for some time. Only time and ...

IBM has created a module to handle Java for its mainframe computers and has come out with a budget system for midsize companies to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the mainframe.