concept directory structure in category java

This is an excerpt from Manning's book The Java Module System. Login to get full access to this book.

The directory structure of a multimodule project can be similar to what it would have been before Java 9, so existing tools and approaches will continue to work.

4.1 Organizing your project in a directory structure

A real-life project consists of myriad files of many different types. Obviously, source files are the most important, but are nonetheless only one kind of many—others are test sources, resources, build scripts or project descriptions, documentation, source control information, and many others. Any project has to choose a directory structure to organize those files, and it’s important to make sure it doesn’t clash with the module system’s characteristics.

Figure 6.2 Comparison of the directory structure of JDK 8 and 9. The new one is much cleaner.