Yes, JDK17 can produce JDK8 bytecode, in fact that's what Tomcat does. On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 2:35 PM Aditya Shastri <aditya.shastri5...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > We build our own Tomcat 9 binaries from scratch (grab the tag from > https://github.com/apache/tomcat) and call ant (with java8) to build > it. > > Starting with 9.0.83, our pipelines are failing with the error > build.xml:113: Java version 17 or newer is required (1.8.0_381 is > installed) > > The apps we have are only certified on Java 8 and it would take a bit > of work to get it to Java 17. > > My question is if I build the binaries with Java 17, can I still use > it with Java 8? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
