The former. <property name="compile.release" value="8"/>
On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 3:40 PM Aditya Shastri <aditya.shastri5...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the response Adwait. > > My ant skills are lacking. Does the minimum bytecode definition come > from this line? > <property name="compile.release" value="8"/> > > What does this line do? > <property name="min.java.version" value="8"/> > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 6:10 PM Adwait Kumar Singh <adwsi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
