The sample application we modularized is very simple and not a representation of most real-world applications. Here are a couple of characteristics in which most applications differ:
- They have a broader code base that spans multiple projects. These projects may reside in different source locations and may be hooked to a build system. The build of the main application then gathers the right dependencies together to form the final application build.
- They have many more framework dependencies that have more complex needs. Frameworks such as Spring or Hibernate require access to your application code to do reflection. They might scan your classes for annotations and do various things such as dependency injection and object-relational mapping. In that sense, it is not just your application code that needs access to libraries as automatic modules; even such...
