Re: NB 14, 15 Platform Applications and Java 8 compatibility

2022-08-01 Thread Mike Hallan
Thanks very much Neil & Michael for the clarification and the helpful options to consider. I now plan to bundle a JDK with the application and set myapp.conf jdkhome param to refer to it. Eventually I'll look into jlink to trim down the JDK although I'm a bit concerned about missing something s

Re: NB 14, 15 Platform Applications and Java 8 compatibility

2022-07-30 Thread Neil C Smith
On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 at 11:53, Michael Bien wrote: > Bundling a custom runtime (jlink) with the application might be also a > consideration. > > There is also ... jpackage etc which might help there. And of course, https://github.com/apache/netbeans-tools/tree/master/nbpackage jpackage is proble

Re: NB 14, 15 Platform Applications and Java 8 compatibility

2022-07-30 Thread Michael Bien
On 29.07.22 12:28, Mike Hallan wrote: I want to know whether to tell end users that they must move to J11+, or that J8 is still OK. it highly depends on what user base you have, but there is usually no good reason to use anything else outside of the latest java LTS release. You get the late

Re: NB 14, 15 Platform Applications and Java 8 compatibility

2022-07-30 Thread Neil C Smith
On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 at 11:28, Mike Hallan wrote: > Does this mean that a NB Platform Application, compiled on NB 15 as described > above, is compatible to run on Java 8? Or is this just luck that it ran on > Java 8 and the error msg saying 1.8 is something that hasn't yet been updated? > > Also,

NB 14, 15 Platform Applications and Java 8 compatibility

2022-07-29 Thread Mike Hallan
I know NB 15 is still not released but I'm using rc1 it because 14 had an issue that made it unusable for me (forms designer frequently freezing). After migrating from NB 12, the NB Platform's project 'Manage Platform' remained at Java 8. I found that the produced NB Platform Application ran fine