Late for the train

[Henri Gomez]

It's sad and will make adoption ever harder for Java 9.

For those requiring today modularization, OSGI will be the only
solution for Java 7 and 8 and it will be hard to move companies who
will adopt it to move back to jigsaw ;(

2012/7/17  <mark.reinhold at oracle.com>:
> As some of you are already aware, I've concluded with regret that Project
> Jigsaw isn't going to make Java 8 as planned.  I've set out my reasoning
> in a blog entry [1], and I've asked the Java SE 8 EG to consider dropping
> the module system and modularization from the release [2].
>
> Slipping Jigsaw to Java 9 isn't an easy decision, but I think it's the
> best of a set of unpleasant options.  We've made a lot of progress over
> the past year, and I'm determined that we do our best to maintain our
> momentum from here to Java 9.  I thank those who've contributed to this
> effort so far, in ways both large and small, and I hope you'll all be
> able to stay aboard for the rest of the journey.
>
> - Mark
>
>
> [1] http://mreinhold.org/blog/late-for-the-train
> [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/java-se-8-spec-observers/2012-July/000001.html