ApacheCon 2016

The Apache community creates the building blocks of software companies world wide. Developers designing those building blocks require a different mindset than developers focused on building applications. Good building blocks can be repurposed, reused, and recomposed. Good building blocks are modular. This talk focus on building good blocks in Java using current language features, frameworks (Apache Felix), and prepare for new modularity features available in Java 9. This talk will cover when it makes sense to break a project down further as well as some of the strategies and tools involved in doing so. We'll cover lessons learned I've learned doing this for clients as well as within the ASF with Apache Tika.