I'll be delivering a talk on " Project Penrose " at Javaone India . Project Penrose is a IBM driven Openjdk Project aimed at bringing interoperability between Java's modularity approach developed under Project Jigsaw and the Industry standard OSGi . I'll write a separate blog on my topic in detail in a while. In the mean time, go through the following links to make yourselves familiar with these topics: OSGi Intro to OSGI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_QR0Z_6oms Jigsaw and Penrose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl6H2HTufIU A very good intro into jigsaw module system and the inter-op effort thats underway between it and OSGi. http://www.slideshare.net/mfrancis/java-8-modules-jigsaw-and-osgi-neil-bartlett - slides on OSGi, jigsaw and modularity by Tim and Neil Barlett http://coderthoughts.blogspot.in/2012/02/building-project-penrose-or-openjdk-8.html - For those dare devils, steps on how to build jigsaw http://tec...