Java is no longer an user-facing product, it's middleware. You are expected to provide Java bundled with your application in the future.
Users will not have any Java already available nor will they download any new Java. --emi On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 7:39 PM Derik Devecchio <ddevecc...@celestron.com> wrote: > > I know that the Netbeans’s forum doesn’t maintain Java.com. But I don’t > know anyone else to ask off hand. > > I went to Java.com to find out the “latest public stable release”. I was > expecting Java 9 point something. But I was hoping for 10, 11 or maybe 12. > Low and behold it is still on Java8 u 221? > > > Isn’t Java 9 stable enough for public? As a person that writes software for > the customers of my company, I am loath to write code using a version of Java > that won’t be compatible with what most people already have installed on > their machine. And if they don’t have any version of Java installed on > their computer, which is increasingly the case, then my code should be > compatible with the JRE they download from the most obvious place, Java.com. > > I was just wondering if maybe Java.com wasn’t the right place anymore. It > doesn’t seem like the site is stagnate. 8u221 was released just a few > months ago. But why 8? If anyone has a clue, I would appreciate some > enlightenment. > > > — > derik > > P.S. Great work bringing such a huge project over to the Apache framework. > I thought it would be a lot easier than it is. I have watched some fo the > videos of Gertjan discussing the mind bogglingly large amount of tedious work > involved. I applaud your efforts. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
