FWIW, at my company, we develop on Java 8 and support Java 8 and 11 at runtime.
Gary On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 23:05 Chris Lambertus <c...@apache.org> wrote: > All, > > We have received a number of tickets related to jdk9 and the libjli > problem. I’m not sure exactly what the issue is, and we don’t have a > solution yet, but I notice that JDK9 was EOL over a year ago. I suppose it > goes without saying that the Java ecosystem is undergoing some changes wrt > to Oracle’s semi-recent license change, but it seems odd to me that so many > projects are building against a JDK that was never really deployed, and is > already deprecated. Is there a tangible benefit to building on JDK9 vs > newer releases? I’d like to get some more understanding of the reasons > projects want to build against JDK9. > > Thanks, > > Chris > INFRA
