Hi Chris, On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 20:05 -0700, Chris Lambertus 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.
We defined our releases at a certain time as supported on JDKs 8 through 12. We might have a different approach for the future, but if we define something as supported we want to make sure the ITs pass. Thanks, Robert
