Modularity in the Enterprise

Most people agree that modularity is a good thing, and with the impending “modularity revolution” coming to Java, many enterprise developers have been anxiously awaiting the benefits of modules in Java EE. This presentation discusses the fundamentals of enterprise modularity and demonstrates how it will affect Java EE application development. It covers dependencies and how they can be expressed, as well as the packaging and metadata issues that come into play. And it also goes over some of the relevant trade-offs that influence the solutions.