A new project from Sun casts doubt on the future of JSR277

InfoQ: Jigsaw - the death knell of JSR277?

Read this InfoQ article (found by my Chariot co-hort Dmitry Skylut of It Depends!). Here is an interesting development... Looks like Sun is putting JSR-277, the Dynamic Modules project, to bed, in order to focus on an Open JDK project Jigsaw. This could be a recognition of OSGi as a new defacto standard, accorging to Alex Blewitt's linked article above. Interesting as now Rod Johnson of SpringSource is on the JCP and Spring-DM is streamlining OSGi development with their new offerings...

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