Project Jigsaw deferred until Java 9

Project Jigsaw, java modularity is going to be deferred until Java 9. Java 8 release time is September 2013. There is still to much to do to make the deadline.
The goal is: A standard module system for the Java Platform will ease the construction, maintenance, and distribution of large applications, at last allowing developers to escape the “JAR hell” of the brittle and error-prone class-path mechanism.

Chief Java architect on his blog describes the situation: http://mreinhold.org/blog/late-for-the-train.

Project Jigsaw home page: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/