Java 9 Delayed Due To Modularity Controversy (infoworld.com)

An anonymous reader quotes InfoWorld: Java 9 won't be released on July 27 after all. Oracle has proposed that Java 9 Standard Edition be delayed until September 21 so the open source community that is finalizing Java 9 can address the ongoing controversy over a planned but later rejected approach to modularity, said Georges Saab, vice president of software development in the Java platform group at Oracle and chairman of the OpenJDK governing board...

The [Java Platform Module System] measure was sent back to the proposal's expert group for further discussion. Since then, the group has reached consensus on addressing the modularity concerns, Saab said. But they cannot rework Java 9 in time for the original July 27 release date... If the revised JSR 376 approved, as expected, work can proceed on implementing it in the official version of Java 9 SE. This setback for Java 9s upcoming upgrade, however, should just be temporary, with Oracle expecting a more rapid cadence of Java SE releases going forward, Saab said.

Comments

java medium security come back! lot's of IPMI and

[Joe_Dragon]

java medium security come back! lot's of IPMI and network hardware needs it.

Re: Are people still seriously using Java?

[Anonymous Coward]

It is easy to refactor Java with Eclipse rename and extract. It has maven which makes 3rd party lib usage simple. It has auto formatter. Using threads is simple enough. Making libs is simple. It is fast. Debugging is easy. It has good static analysis support. It is easy to find people who know the language. The language has pretty good libs for many different things like GUI, calendar, 3D, regex... , JUnit makes testing easy, auto import works with it, it will by default give good info where it crashed and why, it is OSS, it is easy to manage even large projects with it. Library support for various databases, and many other things. Many of these are because of Eclipse and similar IDEs, but considering how bad IDEs C++ has, I think it is because of the language that these tools could be made.

Re:Are people still seriously using Java?

[angel'o'sphere]

All the idiots who want stuff to get done and get payed for it.

It is surprising how ignorant /. readers are.

While the majourity of all big internet software in the USA is written in Java, thy proclaim death to Java all the time. How is the balance between C# and Java in the USA regarding serious back end software? 10% is Python and PHP and 0.5% PERL? And the rest? 60% Java versus 40% C#? No idea just wondering.

In Europe basically 90% of all industrial software on high performance back ends is written in Java. The idiots who decided for C# don't even find developers to maintain their systems. I have requests for C#/.NET developers every day. I would get $1000 for every colleague I would refer to the requesters. Unfortunately I do not know a single person who is so dumb to work with C#/.Net ... go figure.

Java is just C++ running on a VM without real templates, anyway. If that is to hard to grasp, you should not be working in the software industry.