That is interesting. Where I work we moved straight from Java 6 to 8 and skipped 7. That move was fairly painless. Despite me wanting to keep compatibility with Java 7 here, everything I am using at work is running on Java 8. But I anticipate the move to Java 9 is going to be fairly painful for some of our applications as they will need to have lots of other dependencies upgraded besides Java.
Ralph > On Apr 22, 2017, at 2:59 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's a given IMO. For my work projects, there is so much inertia > anchoring to Java 7 for various reasons. > > One of the many fun things of FOSS for me is that things move faster than > for work projects. > > So keeping on hearing that we must stay on Java 7 is not great. > > Yeah, there is the multi jar things and Java 9 thing but that is not the > same as just moving to Java 8 plain and simple. > > Gary
