Aug 7, 2012 · Jigsaw breaks up the JDK itself into many modules; e.g. java.sql contains the familiar SQL classes. There are several benefits to this, but a new one is the jlink tool. Assuming an app is completely modularized, jlink generates a distributable run-time image that is trimmed to contain only the modules specified (and their dependencies).

Jul 9, 2019 · I get the sense that Jigsaw modules officially shipped with Java 9 in September 2017, which is almost two years ago. JDK 11 and maybe JDK 12 are widely used in production, but Jigsaw basically isn't used and isn't supported by the community and isn't ready for regular Java developers to use.

So, as of March 2015, the OpenJDK 9 builds don't include Jigsaw support. The jigsaw-dev mailing list is the best place to look for progress. It also confirms that status: So too early to be looking for options like -modulepath. It's likely that Jigsaw-specific builds will be made available ahead of inclusion in the regular JDK 9 builds.

May 27, 2015 · The answer given to the question OSGi, Java Modularity and Jigsaw says that Jigsaw module system is probably necessary for JRE. By JRE, I assume the OP means the Java standard libraries like IO, CORBA, RMI which are written in Java or is it the class library implementations that underlies these which are the target?

Aug 10, 2017 · module com.allstate.jigsaw { requires java.logging; requires spring.boot; } Also the, pom.xml has been revamped to use Java 9. There is a parent pom.xml in the root, and another in the module folder.

Oct 4, 2016 · From Jigsaw Project: Make it easier for developers to construct and maintain libraries and large applications, for both the Java SE and EE Platforms. I'm trying to learn what project Jigsaw is and till now it seems that the goal of Project Jigsaw somewhat overlaps with what we did using Maven (or Gradle) dependency management:

Jun 18, 2020 · Compile all sources (excluding module-info.java) for Java 8, overwriting all previously compiled Java 9 classes with Java 8 classes; this means the only Java 9 class (class level 53+) will be module-info.class. All other classes should …

Sep 24, 2017 · Jigsaw has some advantages like stronger encapsulation which can be relevant for normal Java developers as well. In my opinion, the possibility to export only defined packages to users to a JAR is quite useful for normal developers as well.

May 14, 2018 · There is a (new) option in the Maven Surefire plugin called useModulePath.This option enables to use the traditional Java 8 class path instead of the module path and ignores a module-info.class not turning on the Java module mode, …

May 28, 2023 · My question is does Java Modules (JPMS/Jigsaw) also solve this problem without the need for shading? I understand that today, most Java projects aren't using JPMS, but in the scenario that Qux/Foo/Bar were all fully using JPMS modules, could they avoid conflicts without Foo needing to use a shaded version of Bar?