Re: Maven Artifact JDK Suffix

On 15 January 2016 at 06:51, Mark Rotteveel <mark(at)lawinegevaar(dot)nl> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 06:24:21 -0500, Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > I would have to agree with this. I think people will be surprised (not
> in a
> > good way) if we upgrade to java 9 and all of a sudden maven pulls down
> JDBC
> > for java 9
>
> As far as I know, starting with Java 9 this problem could be solved with
> multi-release JARs (JEP-238, http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/238) The main
> content could then be Java 8, and the Java 9 versions of classes could go
> into META-INF/versions/9 (assuming that is the final way JEP-238 will be
> realised, I am not sure if it is already in). For efficiency it would be
> best to only put in a Java 9 version of classes that really need a Java 9
> version.
>
> Yes, but in my example the customer would still be running Java 8. Does
Java 8 know how to read this jar

Dave Cramer

davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
www.postgresintl.com

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