I’d much rather keep master a “8+9” type of thing for a while. I don’t see ANYONE moving to Java 9 for production stuff any time soon.
That said, at some point soon, I’d like to make master more “Java 9 Friendly” and hopefully release a 3.3 at some point in the future that supports java8, but may be more friendly for Java9. Not 100% sure what that would entail, but I would definitely be open to the idea of releases being done with Java9 that would allow additional modules for Java9 users. It’s kind of similar to how we moved from JAX-WS 2.1 to 2.2. Until we went Java7 only, we had a separate profile that added additional src directories and such for JAX-WS 2.2. On Java 5/6, we had to do JAX-WS 2.1 so the code in the normal src/main/java directories was all Java5/6 with JAX-WS 2.1. However, we had a separate src/man/jaxws22 source directory that contained the additional classes and such that were needed for JAX-WS 2.2. At release time, we had to make sure we used the appropriate JDK/Profile to get that included. Now, what does “Java 9 Friendly” entail? Not really sure. Off the top of my head, I would definitely start by including dependencies for all the javax.* API’s. Example, core depends on JAXB so add the jaxb-api jar. This would definitely reduce the amount of “patch-module” things that are needed to use CXF on Java9. However, it’s not something to do on 3.2.x as it adds a ton of dependencies that users may need/want to exclude so not a “patch” thing. As part of this, we’d also update to as many dependencies that are module friendly as possible. We could also have additional source dirs or similar to the tree for Java 9 “cool things”, providing we can still compile with —target=1.8. Another example could possibly be an update to the http client transport to use the Java9 HttpClient. If run on Java8, we’d stick with URLConnection, on Java9, use HttpClient. I know Java9 supports the “Multi-Release JAR”, but I’m not sure if Maven can handle/generate those yet. Something else to look into. Dan > On Nov 15, 2017, at 6:47 AM, Sergey Beryozkin <sberyoz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > Should we open a new Java 9 only master soon enough ? > > Thanks, Sergey -- Daniel Kulp dk...@apache.org - http://dankulp.com/blog Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com
