> On May 30, 2024, at 6:37 AM, Engebretson, John <jeng...@amazon.com.INVALID>
> wrote:
>
> On 2024/04/10 01:45:19 Ralph Goers wrote:
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>>
>>> On Apr 9, 2024, at 3:52 PM, Piotr P. Karwasz <pi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> BTW: Maybe SLF4J still uses Java 8, but the latest Logback uses Java 11.
>>
>> Ask me if I care about Logback. ;-)
>>
>> Ralph
>
>
>
> Following up on this chain re: JDK 8 vs. 17 – code compiled against JDK 8
> should run the same as that code compiled against JDK 17. Language features
> are clearly limited to JDK 8 but that doesn’t appear to be an immediate issue.
>
> So, other than enabling new features, what is the driver for targeting JDK
> 17?
>
> John
For 3.x? Maintenance is simpler for one. The more JDKs we support the more I
have to have installed on my laptop. It also does make it simpler to take
advantage of and support new language features.
Remember that most of us have $dayjobs. Over 90% of the apps I support at work
have moved off of JDK 8. Most are on JDK 11 but some have moved up to JDK 17.
To be honest, all are apps would be there if moving to Spring 3.x wasn’t so
hard.
Ralph
