+1. This will only get more pressing with time. Adam
On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 8:36 PM Bruno P. Kinoshita <ki...@apache.org> wrote: > I'm +1 for Java 11, and to go along with your plan. First message to > users with our intention, and asking for any known issues from their side. > > Bruno > > On Saturday, 2 January 2021, 1:13:39 am NZDT, Andy Seaborne < > a...@apache.org> wrote: > > Should we switch to Java11? > > There are the usually issues of moving to a newer Java. There seems > likely to be an emerging bimodal distribution of systems remaining with > Java8 and systems moving to Java11 and Java 17 (likely an LTS - > September 2021). > > The question is how many systems would upgrade their Jena version and > are restricted to Java8 (and why!). > > Java is evolving to better fit in the new tech landscape (e.g. better > container usage), more compact strings (significant for Jena), and > JDK-provided HTTP/2. > > Some dependences or potential dependencies are Java11: > > Titanium - for JSON-LD 1.1 (JENA-1948 - titanium-json-ld ) > > Eclipse Jetty 10 and 11 now depend on Java11. > > (the difference between Jetty 10 and Jetty 11 is that Jetty 10 uses the > package root name "javax..." whereas Jetty11 uses package route > "jakarta...") > > Proposal: > > 1/ Ask on users@ -- what we need is "new information" such as "I am > blocked from updating Java because ...", not "I haven't got round to it". > > 2/ Switch to Java11 for the next release but not make so many changes > that we can't easily go back to Java8. > > Andy >
