Abstract: Drools is a popular and well known Java-based production rule system. Production rule systems, like Drools, present challenges when applied to large and complex systems. This industrial ...

ABSTRACT: Microservices have revolutionized traditional software architecture. While monolithic designs continue to be common, particularly in legacy applications, there is a growing trend towards the ...

The Mac Pro redesign of 2019 was one of the biggest overhauls of an Apple product since — well, ever. Nothing was left untouched, from the exterior design to the internal components. Yet nothing made ...

Modularity has been regarded as one of the most important properties of a successful software design. It has significant impact on many external quality attributes such as reusability, maintainability ...

Module system is one of the biggest changes to Java ever. HTTP/2 Client, updates to Stream APIs, Collection Factories are additional features. Creating modules Working with Modules Services in a ...

Java 9 will not be released on 27 July after all. Oracle has proposed that Java 9 Standard Edition be delayed until September so the open source community that is finalising Java 9 can address the ...

A Java modularity specification has failed to pass in a vote by Java executive committee members, leaving the future of the technology in question. The issue could hold up the planned July 27 release ...

At the EclipseCon conference, Mark Reinhold, Java platform chief architect at Oracle, laid out the roadmap for Java 9, which could mean better modularity and new value types. Improved modularity could ...