^The term "package" is used for the analog of modules in the JLS;[3] — see Java package. "Modules", a kind of collection of packages, are planned for Java 9 as part of Project Jigsaw; these were earlier called "superpackages" and planned for Java 7.
^David MacQueen. Modules for Standard ML, LFP '84 Proceedings of the 1984 ACM Symposium on LISP and functional programming: 198–207. August 1984.
^James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy Steele, Gilad Bracha, The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, ISBN0-321-24678-0, 2005. In the Introduction, it is stated "Chapter 7 describes the structure of a program, which is organized into packages similar to the modules of Modula." The word "module" has no special meaning in Java.