Congratulations Petri. You are just great On Thu, May 7, 2020, 21:35 Michael Vorburger <m...@vorburger.ch> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > I'm super pleased to be able to share that thanks to another great > contribution by Petri (right after FINERACT-730, you're On A Roll!), we > have just been able to merge https://github.com/apache/fineract/pull/820. > This switches Fineract (non-CN) from Java 8 to Java 11 (only), on the > develop branch, and resolves > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-846. > > You must now all use Java 11 instead of 8 for local development. -- > Personally I recommend using OpenJDK for local development, which is simple > to install through your favourite package manager if you use a real ;) > operating system, or downloaded e.g. from https://adoptopenjdk.net. Other > Java 11 work as well, of course. (For your production environments, I > personally would recommend using a supported JDK distribution, if you're > serious, but that's another discussion.) > > Running e.g. "./gradlew bootRun" on Java 8 instead of Java 11 will now > fail with "Execution failed for task ':compileJava'. > Could not target > platform: 'Java SE 11' using tool chain: 'JDK 8 (1.8)'." <== This will help > people searching for this find this announcement in the future... ;-) > > At runtime, this makes it possible to use a modern modern a recent JVM > (which was technically hypothetically already possible with a Java 8 based > WAR, but typically isn't done). At development time, this work unlocks a > number of next steps, such as using Java 11 language syntax in all of > Fineract's source code, and depending on modern libraries requiring Java > 11. We look forward to Pull Requests from all of you! > > Please join me in thanking Petri for his 2nd major contribution. Hats off > for having figured out that pesky SSL issue... ;-) Now let's all toast to > Fineract's future developments using Java 11! > > Best, > M. > _______________________ > Michael Vorburger > http://www.vorburger.ch > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 8:43 AM Michael Vorburger <m...@vorburger.ch> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> The upgrade to more recent Spring versions just got merged (today) into >> the develop branch; Ivan did this (thanks again), so contributions for that >> are no longer needed. We do, of course, welcome any contributions with >> upgrades for other dependencies. >> >> The upgrade to Java 11 is something I looked into in >> https://github.com/apache/fineract/pull/609; it's not quite working yet. >> Would you perhaps like to help with that? >> >> Best, >> M. >> _______________________ >> Michael Vorburger >> http://www.vorburger.ch >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 7:33 AM Aleksandar Vidakovic < >> chee...@monkeysintown.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Ram, >>> >>> ... we are currently testing a completely upgraded Fineract 1.x (Spring >>> 5.2.0.RELEASE, Spring Boot 2.2.1.RELEASE, Jersey 2.29, and pretty much >>> every other dependency upgraded) that is running on OpenJDK 12 (I'm pretty >>> sure it will run the same way on 11 and 13). Goal is to offer this as a >>> pull request soon. >>> >>> This upgrade is intended to be a drop in replacement (i. e. can be used >>> with Community app, same REST endpoints, runs most - 93% - of the >>> integration tests successfully); some minor work is left to do. >>> >>> Just FYI >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 3:19 AM Rama Reddy <reddy...@yahoo.com.invalid> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Just would like check if anybody started work on migrating java version >>>> to 11 for fineract 1.x. >>>> Would be great if you can share your experience with w.r.t >>>> - impact analysis >>>> - amount of work involved.. >>>> - if any feature branch in place? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Ram >>>> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android >>>> <https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature> >>>> >>>
