My understanding was that openjdk would support java 8 until 2023. In the past our strategy used to be that we should ensure the code base would operate on newer java versions but keep our minimum required version as low as possible. That effectively allows users to run whatever version they like. So unless there are some compelling new features in java 9/10/11 that we think we must have, I'd prefer it if we kept our minimum supported version as low as possible.
For myself, all client projects are still running java 8 (openjdk) so before I could continue contributing to OFBiz I would have to figure out how to run both versions on my machine with minimal disruption. Since I don't have a huge amount of spare time, I would probably just put it off for quite a while and work on other things. I'm not trying to veto the idea, if the community wants to proceed then it should but I doubt I'm the only contributor we'd be putting another hurdle in front of. Regards Scott On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 09:09, Taher Alkhateeb <slidingfilame...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I could be mistaken but it seems EOL for java 8 is coming soon (2019 > commercial 2020 personal) [1]. This seems to be the case because the new > LTS is out which is java 11. > > Also this new release model from oracle seems to be annoying which is > pushing developers to adopt the openjdk instead. So I guess the reason for > the upgrade is to strike two birds with one stone: upgrade java and switch > to openjdk. > > With that being said, I don't have a firm opinion on upgrading and I just > wanted to highlight things, I leave it to other folks to decide. > > [1] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/java-se-support-roadmap.html > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 10:38 PM Scott Gray <scott.g...@hotwaxsystems.com> > wrote: > > > That would probably halt any further contributions from me in the short > to > > medium term. > > > > Can I ask why we need to require 11 when 8 is supported through to 2023? > > > > Regards > > Scott > > > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, 23:37 Jacques Le Roux, < > jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> > > wrote: > > > > > If nobody disagree, I'll make the last move (ie ask for Java 11 in > > > build.gradle) in 3 days > > > > > > Jacques > > > > > > Le 13/04/2019 à 12:34, Nicolas Malin a écrit : > > > > On 13/04/2019 11:47, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > > > >> I just tested, without surprise the trunk HEAD works with Java 11 > > > > > > > > I did the same with 18.12, works fine > > > > > > > > Nicolas > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
