On 02/12/2015 09:52 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote: > Hi > > In connection with the JEP there is also a design document to help the > discussion: > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/MultiVersionJar-8u60-9-design.md > > We are especially interesting in hearing feedback from library developers, > tool/IDE developers, and anyone doing funky stuff with class loading and JAR > files.
I'm wondering how you propose to build such JAR files. Do you think library developers will maintain two separate branches, compile one with JDK 8, the other one with JDK 9, and then use some (not yet existing?) tool to merge the output into a single JAR? Is such automated merging even possible if the bytecode was compiled with different javac versions? What about presenting Javadoc in a useful fashion? -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
