The difficult way is to go through lucene code and read if is work with java 8. If you can duplicate the index created with lucene 2.9.4, perhaps you can try to upgrade java in test environment, it should give some direct indication or result (for example, exception, index cannot write/read, etc) immediately.
hth jason On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 4:19 AM, Pushyami Gundala <pushy...@umich.edu> wrote: > Hi, We are using lucene 2.9.4 version for our application that has search. > We are planning on upgrading our application to run on java 8. My Question > is when we move to java 8 does the lucene-2.9.4 version still work? or i > need to upgrade to new version of lucene to support java 8. > Regards, > Pushyami >