Java 9 delayed by slow progress on modularization

Java 9, a major release of the standard Java platform that was planned for September 2016, is now likely to be postponed by six months.

In an openjdk mailing list post this week, Oracle's Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java platform group, blamed the delay on complexities in developing modularization, which improves scalability and performance and is based on Project Jigsaw. "We've made good progress on Jigsaw over the last 18 months," wrote Reinhold. But the current JDK (Java Development Kit) 9 feature complete milestone is set for December 10, and Jigsaw "needs more time."

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