It's full speed ahead for modular and real-time Java efforts early in the new year.
Interviewed at a Silicon Valley Java User Group meeting late last week, Ben Evans, a member of the Java Community Process Executive Committee, said the committee saw presentations last week on the modularity planned for Java 9 and Safety-Critical Java for use in real-time systems.
Modular Java, which had been planned for last year's Java 8 release but was postponed until Java 9 (expected in 2016), has been redesigned. "The original design was quite complex [as far as modularity]," Evans said. "The current design is much more slimmed down and is much more just about reducing footprint and providing developers with the choice to not to have to ship a monolithic JDK [Java Development Kit]."
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