Nope, not using anything from Java 9, myself. But I haven't looked that carefully at library changes. (I am looking forward to private members on interfaces.) I don't personally know anyone using Jigsaw (the new module system), and to my (low level of) understanding, it isn't really meant for applications (at least not yet), it's meant to modularize the Java platform itself. When I need an application modularity framework right now, I'm still using the tried-and-true OSGi.
Lorenz, are you hinting at the possibility that we just go from LTS to LTS? Because that has crossed my mind... ajs6f > On Feb 6, 2018, at 2:57 AM, Lorenz B. <conpcompl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Well, I read about this some time ago and was wondering how many people > are really aware of the fact that no more security updates will be > delivered 6 month after the release of a new version. Most people in our > group are still working on Java 8, if not necessary probably nobody here > will upgrade until the next LTS. > > Is anybody of you using features from Java 9? The only things that I > find interesting are some extended Stream functions like takeWhile, > dropWhile, etc. Who is using the modularity feature? > > > Cheers, > > Lorenz > > > On 05.02.2018 17:41, ajs6f wrote: >> Ditto (haven't been paying much attention). >> >> A six month cycle is pretty fast, in some ways. At least it will be if we >> have to do a lot of work for each version. >> >> ajs6f >> >>> On Feb 5, 2018, at 11:34 AM, Andy Seaborne <a...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> I hadn't grok'ed (or, to be honest, paid attention to) the details: >>> >>> http://blog.joda.org/2018/02/java-9-has-six-weeks-to-live.html >>> >>> Java 8 LTS -> Java 11 LTS (Sep 2018) >>> >>> then only four months until end of LTS for Java8. >>> >>> Andy >
