Great! Thank you for sharing, Steve. - Tsuyoshi
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > Looking ahead to Java 9, here's where the builds are up for D/L > > From: Rory O'Donnell > > Subject: Early Access builds for JDK 9 b53 and JDK 8u60 b05 are available on > java.net > > > Hi Andrew, > > 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. > > Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the corelibs-dev mailing > list. (If you > haven't already subscribed to that list then please do so first, otherwise > your message will be > discarded as spam.) > > 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
