so unexpected?
Everyone knows that the problem Project Jigsaw was trying to solve is hard.. The work has (more recently) been discussed in an open and transparent way via the developer mailing list. Recently it was obvious that Project Jigsaw wasn't progressing as much as they should have been. This is in stark contrast to the Project Lambda mailing list which suggest a language/platform change pretty much on track.
So my reaction to the announcement was dissapointment but not really any surprise. Was I annoyed at the way it was communicated, well no, the mailing lists were keeping me up to date with how things were progressing and the decision was communicated 18 months before the slated release date of Java 8.
I'm not qualified to answer the 'Just use OSGi/Maven' argument. But my experience with JBoss Modules is that I dearly want modularization rules to be applied at compile time AND runtime so that I don't get runtime errors that are harder to solve than they should be.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
