+1
Yep, we've been moved over to Java 11 for a while now
Rob
On 03/01/2021, 10:39, "Dr. Chavdar Ivanov" <ch.iva...@outlook.hu> wrote:
+1
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From: aj...@apache.org <aj...@apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, 2 January, 2021 17:57
To: dev@jena.apache.org; Bruno P. Kinoshita <ki...@apache.org>
Subject: Re: Java 8 or 11?
+1. This will only get more pressing with time.
Adam
On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 8:36 PM Bruno P. Kinoshita <ki...@apache.org> wrote:
> I'm +1 for Java 11, and to go along with your plan. First message to
> users with our intention, and asking for any known issues from their side.
>
> Bruno
>
> On Saturday, 2 January 2021, 1:13:39 am NZDT, Andy Seaborne <
> a...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Should we switch to Java11?
>
> There are the usually issues of moving to a newer Java. There seems
> likely to be an emerging bimodal distribution of systems remaining
> with
> Java8 and systems moving to Java11 and Java 17 (likely an LTS -
> September 2021).
>
> The question is how many systems would upgrade their Jena version and
> are restricted to Java8 (and why!).
>
> Java is evolving to better fit in the new tech landscape (e.g. better
> container usage), more compact strings (significant for Jena), and
> JDK-provided HTTP/2.
>
> Some dependences or potential dependencies are Java11:
>
> Titanium - for JSON-LD 1.1 (JENA-1948 - titanium-json-ld )
>
> Eclipse Jetty 10 and 11 now depend on Java11.
>
> (the difference between Jetty 10 and Jetty 11 is that Jetty 10 uses
> the package root name "javax..." whereas Jetty11 uses package route
> "jakarta...")
>
> Proposal:
>
> 1/ Ask on users@ -- what we need is "new information" such as "I am
> blocked from updating Java because ...", not "I haven't got round to it".
>
> 2/ Switch to Java11 for the next release but not make so many changes
> that we can't easily go back to Java8.
>
> Andy
>
