All, My only concern about JDK8 is that I deploy my J2EE application on a Payara server, and there seems to be some dependencies on JDK8. I know that I should be able to run Netbeans on one JDK while developing my application to deploy on another version, but whenever I do that I end up with weird errors where Payara won't run my application. As a result, I use Netbeans 12.2 for J2EE development but use JDK8 for everything across the board to avoid these little gremlins that I never seem to have time to debug.
That was the biggest reason I stuck with Netbeans 8.2 for so long, and still use it for my platform applications. I want to keep up with the latest exciting changes, but have so many plates spinning that it's usually a matter of "just keep doing what works". If that means being stuck at an old platform, and using a mixture of platforms, that's unfortunate but I live with it. That said, I think that everyone is doing an outstanding job. I just wish that I had more resources to keep up. Peter ________________________________ From: Neil C Smith <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 10:59 AM To: dev <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Netbeans Long Term Java Planning On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 18:58, Matthias Bläsing <[email protected]> wrote: > Translating to today, LTS versions can be considered mostly identical > to the old times java released. We currently run on 11 (current LTS) > and support 8, I think the Java 17 LTS jump might be good time to speak > again. If we decide to continue with our LTS (another discussion!) my assumption would be that we wouldn't review this until after our first LTS on JDK 17 - in which case perhaps 6 months past JDK 17 release? > I don't see a big issue here. At some point it was discussed and > someone, I think Jaroslav, said, that in the old time, NetBeans was > able to be run on JDK-1. If that's the discussion I'm thinking of, it started as discussion about dropping support for Java editing on JDK 8 (in order to drop nb-javac). That got conflated with discussion about minimum JDK for the whole project and platform. I still think those two concerns should be considered separately. Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
