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Does Webpshere Liberty support for Java 9? as of latest beta it is mentioned fully compatible with Java 8 but there is not mentioning about upgrade. Whether Java 9 Module path can be supported with Websphere liberty?

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Websphere Liberty mostly works with Java 9 in "toleration mode", meaning that Liberty and apps can run on Java 9, but you can't take advantage of Java 9 modularity yet.

You can find more detailed progress of OpenLiberty (an open-source subset of Websphere Liberty) support for Java 9 here: https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/issues/540

From a Java EE application perspective, it is not yet defined how Java EE apps are supposed to work with JPMS. That will likely not be decided until Java EE 9.

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    Note that the JDK has no notion of "toleration mode". I assume the answer meant to say that it works on the class path without any knowledge of modules. – Alan Bateman Nov 22 '17 at 19:29
  • That's correct Alan, "toleration mode" is something I made up, which I consider to be a first step of running on Java 9 where no modules are used and we rely on illegal access being enabled. – Andy Guibert Nov 22 '17 at 21:12