As Oracle has been prone to do for the past nine months, company officials Tuesday pledged a strong commitment to Java technology. They even offered glimpses of a modular future for the platform. [ ...

As Oracle has been prone to do for the past nine months, company officials Tuesday pledged a strong commitment to Java technology. They even offered glimpses of a modular future for the platform.

Until recently no single solution had stuck. In this article, Jeff Hanson explains why modularity is a next evolutionary step for the Java platform. He then surveys the two JSRs that propose to bring ...