Java 9 could be delayed until July 2017

Java 9, the next major version of the enterprise language platform, should be delayed again, a high-ranking Java official at Oracle has advised. Instead of arriving in March 2017, it would come out four months later, in July.
Emphasizing that more time is needed to develop the complex module system planned for the Java 9 release, Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java platform group at Oracle, proposed in a bulletin published on an OpenJDK mailing list that another delay should be effected.