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IBM, Eclipse Foundation, Red Hat, and others decide to stand out of the way of the controversial technology’s deployment in Java 9 Modularity, a key but highly controversial feature of the upcoming ...

Famous philosopher George Santayana once said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." In the case of the Java Platform Module System (JPMS), the past has most certainly ...

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