Modular Programming

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Using jdeps to find dependencies in a Java application
• Creating a simple modular application
• Creating a modular JAR
• Using a module JAR with pre-Project Jigsaw JDK applications
• Bottom-up migration
• Top-down migration
• Using services to create loose coupling between the consumer and provider modules
• Creating a custom modular runtime image using jlink
• Compiling for older platform versions
• Creating multi-release JARs
• Using Maven to develop a modular application
• Making your library module-path-friendly
• How to open a module for reflection