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Java 9, the next major version of the enterprise language platform, should be delayed again, a high-ranking Java official at Oracle has advised. Instead of arriving in March 2017, it would come out four months later, in July.
Emphasizing that more time is needed to develop the complex module system planned for the Java 9 release, Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java platform group at Oracle, proposed in a bulletin published on an OpenJDK mailing list that another delay should be effected.
The modularization of Java is part of Project Jigsaw. Reinhold said that progress was being made, but not enough. "Despite this progress, at this point it's clear that Jigsaw needs more time. We recently received critical feedback that motivated a redesign of the module system's package-export feature, without which we'd have failed to achieve one of our main goals." Many open design issues remain, which will take time, he said.
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