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Oracle's Mark Reinhold has proposed a a six-month extension of the JDK 9 schedule, pushing the release to May 2017
Java 9, a major release of the standard Java platform that was planned for September 2016, is now likely to be postponed by six months.
In an openjdk mailing list post
this week, Oracle's Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java platform
group, blamed the delay on complexities in developing modularization,
which improves scalability and performance
and is based on Project Jigsaw. "We've made good progress on Jigsaw
over the last 18 months," wrote Reinhold. But the current JDK (Java
Development Kit) 9 feature complete milestone is set for December 10,
and Jigsaw "needs more time."
"The JSR 376 EG (expert group) has not yet published an Early Draft
Review specification, [but] the volume of interest and the high quality
of the feedback received over the last two months suggests that there
will be much more to come, and we want to ensure that the maintainers of
the essential build tools and IDEs have adequate time to design and
implement good support for modular development."
Thus, Reinhold is proposing a six-month extension of the JDK 9 schedule,
postponing general availability until March 2017 and moving the
feature-complete milestone to May 2016. "As with previous schedule
changes, the intent here is not to open the gates to a flood of new
features unrelated to Jigsaw, nor to permit the scope of existing
features to grow without bound."
If no reasoned objections are raised by next Tuesday, Dec. 8, this new
schedule would be adopted. The Dec. 8 deadline also holds if objections
are raised and satisfactorily answered.
This is not the first time Jigsaw has been delayed. It had been slated for inclusion in Java 8, which shipped in March 2014, but was postponed until Java 9 to give more time to work on technical issues.
This story, "Java 9 delayed by slow progress on modularization" was originally published by
InfoWorld.
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