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The upcoming modularization of Java will be transformative for the platform, but developers can take solace in that they still have a year before it officially arrives, an Oracle official reasoned this week.

Based on Project Jigsaw, Java modularization will happen in Java SE Development Kit 9, which is due in March 2017. "If the watchword for JDK 8 was 'functional,' then the watchword for JDK 9 is 'transitive,'" said Alex Buckley, with the Java platform group at Oracle, during a presentation at a Silicon Valley Java User Group meeting. 

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