Hi Neil, thanks for the tip with AdoptOpenJDK. Thats okay to keep Release82 alive I think :)
But of course I am also curious about netbeans 9 and 10 and would like to try out the new versions. Nut for that I need documentation on maven and the new versions, Cheers, Stefan Am Do., 1. Nov. 2018 um 11:57 Uhr schrieb Neil C Smith < neilcsm...@apache.org>: > On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 08:50, Stefan Murawski <stm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am developing an application that is based on the netbeans framework. > Due to java 8 leaving official support and java 11 becoming the next lts I > am trying to migrate the application to Netbeans 9.0 and possibly java 11 > (java 10 would be okay, too). > > While I wouldn't want to discourage you from migrating, I assume > you're aware that you can get builds of OpenJDK 8 from AdoptOpenJDK, > Azui, etc.? They're easy to embed with the RCP, and (at least in > AdoptOpenJDK's case) intended to be supported for longer than 11. > Given that you'd have to switch to OpenJDK to get a free Java 11 LTS > anyway, I personally don't find the "leaving official support" in > itself a compelling reason to migrate. Java 10 would be a worse > choice than 8 or 11 too, since AFAIK no-one is supporting that now?! > > Best wishes, > > Neil >