Ok, then the question becomes: is it worth the effort. There are some pretty famous examples (SpringBoot and Jakarta EE) that say “no” and Jetty has different versions for different JDK versions as well.
> On Jan 7, 2023, at 1:04 PM, Andreas Reichel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sat, 2023-01-07 at 12:57 -0600, [email protected] wrote: >> “will this help with more and more dependencies being Java 11+” which is the >> primary driver for this? > > Lenny, > > yes, I believe it can. > > 1) You can pull latest versions (requiring Java 11), but fall back on older > versions (compatible with Java 8) on demand > > 2) You can use newer features on Java 11 only, but still build a Java 8 > version of Shiro without that feature (just by providing an empty stub). > > Cheers > Andreas >
