Oracle has proposed that Java 9 Standard Edition be delayed until September 21 so the open source community that is finalising Java 9 can address the ongoing controversy over a planned but later rejected approach to modularity.

Vice president of software development in the Java platform group at Oracle and chairman of the OpenJDK governing board Georges Saab, said that the Java Platform Module System measure was sent back to the proposal's expert group for further discussion.

Since then, the group has reached consensus on addressing the modularity concerns, Saab said. But it cannot rework Java 9 in time for the original July 27 release date.

If the revised JSR 376 is approved, as expected, work can proceed on implementing it in the official version of Java 9 SE. This setback for Java 9s upcoming upgrade, however, should just be temporary, with Oracle expecting a more rapid move of Java SE releases in the future Saab said.