- Unintended coupling between areas of the code, including tests.

## Decision

Organize the Gradle code base into a set of coarse-grained "architecture modules".
An architecture module is responsible for providing some coherent set of features and:

- Provides a set of APIs and services for use from outside the module.
- Has a private implementation.
- Is owned by a single team. A team may own multiple architecture modules.

#### JVM platform

This is a platform that builds on the core and software platforms to add support for developing software that runs on the JVM.
This includes software that is implemented using Java, Kotlin or some other JVM language.

This platform provides specific support for Java, Groovy and Scala, and includes the foojay toolchain plugin. 

#### Extensibility platform