 . This ensures that a specific class can be found and loaded easily in its execution path since a module explicitly declares the modules it requires/reads and it only needs to find the module to find the class. It eases the pain of searching through the classpath to find and load a class.  . This ensures that a specific class can be found and loaded easily in its execution path since a module explicitly declares the modules it requires/reads and it only needs to find the module to find the class. It eases the pain of searching through the classpath to find and load a class. 