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) ...

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 ...

Java 23, now generally available, includes previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, scoped values, and a class-file API. And much more.

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.