After a few, blissful, drama-free issues, this month we look into the tension between the community and the Stewards of Java (again), this time the topic is Modularity. Feedback from the community is always a Good Thing to help improve the platform, but when Jigsaw was due for release with Java 9 in two months it gets a little more... interesting. Java 9 isn't the only news, as usual we're covering Java's future, linking to blogs and tutorials for Java (including Android) code and design, and we've added a whole new section for Java Performance this month.
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