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| accessdate=2015-11-29}}</ref> was created to modularize the JDK. This JSR was superseded by JSR 376 (Java Platform Module System).

Project Jigsaw was originally intended for [[Java 7]] (2011) but was deferred to [[Java 8]] (2014) as part of Plan B,<ref>{{cite web

| url=http://mreinhold.org/blog/plan-b

| title=It’s time for … Plan B

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| author=Mark Reinhold

| date=2009-09-20

| accessdate=2017-06-21}}</ref> and again deferred to a [[Java 9]] release in 2017.<ref>{{cite web

| url=http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/

| title=JDK 9

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Contrary to the Jar file format, the module will describe these dependencies in a module declaration which will be placed in a file named ''module-info.java'' at the root of the module’s source-file hierarchy. The JDK will be able to check them both at compile-time and runtime. The JDK itself will be modularized for [[Java version history#Java SE 9|Java 9]].<ref>{{cite web

| url=http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jigsaw/ea/module-summary.html

| title=JDK Module Summary