Is anyone going to try installing these on the Jenkins machines?
Given the changes in JDK9 it's probably best for people to install locally and
get the builds & tests working before delegating to Jenkins
> On 10 Mar 2015, at 04:06, Rory O'Donnell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Mark & Gavin,
>
> Early Access build for JDK 9 b53 <https://jdk9.java.net/download/> available
> on java.net, summary of changes are listed here
> <http://www.java.net/download/jdk9/changes/jdk9-b53.html>
>
> Early Access build for JDK 8u60 b05 <http://jdk8.java.net/download.html> is
> available on java.net, summary of changes are listed here.
> <http://www.java.net/download/jdk8u60/changes/jdk8u60-b05.html>
>
> I'd also like to use this opportunity to point you to JEP 238: Multi-Version
> JAR Files [0],
> which is currently a Candidate JEP for JDK 9.
>
> It's goal is to extend the JAR file format to allow multiple, JDK
> release-specific versions of class
> files to coexist in a single file. An additional goal is to backport the
> run-time changes to
> JDK 8u60, thereby enabling JDK 8 to consume multi-version JARs. For a
> detailed discussion,
> please see the corresponding thread on the core-libs-dev mailing list. [1]
>
> Please keep in mind that a JEP in the Candidate state is merely an idea
> worthy of consideration
> by JDK Release Projects and related efforts; there is no commitment that it
> will be delivered in
> any particular release.
>
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>
> Rgds,Rory
>
> [0] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/238
> [1]
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-February/031461.html
>
>
>
> --
> Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
> Quality Engineering Manager
> Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland
>
