As far as i understood, MethodHandle is design to replace Unsafe call <http://mydailyjava.blogspot.com/2018/04/jdk-11-and-proxies-in-world-past.html> If not, forget my first message.
Le ven. 5 mai 2023 à 14:37, Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind < [email protected]> a écrit : > Hi Niels, > > This is a very good plan. Though personally I prefer using the latest LTS > version, I think we should require the oldest, actively supported LST > version. For the next 5 months, this means Java 11. > > This link may be of interest here: https://endoflife.date/java > > > Kind regards, > Oscar > > On Fri, 5 May 2023 at 12:44, Niels Basjes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Currently several build plugins cannot be upgraded because the newer > > versions require Java 11+. > > So I'm working on this and I have a partially working pull request > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3716 > > https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/2118 > > > > One of the things I ran into is that currently the main library MUST be > > built with JDK 8 because otherwise the code referring to theUnsafe simply > > won't build. > > Now there is already special code in place to use a reflection based > system > > that is used if you are not running on Java 8. > > > > Since "everyone" I know is already running on Java 11 and 17 I propose to > > - kick theUnsafe code, making the code in that area a lot simpler. > > - Build the entire project with JDK 17 (or 11, but I prefer going to the > > latest LTS version) > > - Make it still produce Java 8 compliant code where possible (so just > about > > everywhere but not Thrift). > > - Have checks in place to do a simple basic test using Java 8 > (toolchains) > > > > One of the effects is that the build on Github will no longer use the > > "matrix" build and will build the project only once (I expect it to > > become faster because of that). > > > > Your opinions on this? > > > > -- > > Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, > > > > Niels Basjes > > > > > -- > > ✉️ Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind <[email protected]> >
