Java has continually evolved in an impressive fashion since 1995 and with each evolutionary step, the JDK grew larger. As with Java 8, the JDK had become prohibitively large. Prior to Java 9, there were several problematic issues stemming from the monolithic nature of the JDK, including:
- Because the JDK is so large, it does not fit on very small devices. In some development sectors this is enough reason to find a non-Java solution for software engineering problems.
- The oversized JDK resulted in waste. It was wasteful in terms of processing and memory when running on devices, networks, and the cloud. This stems from the fact that the entire JDK is loaded, even when only a small subset of the JDK is required. ...
