> On Aug 21, 2018, at 6:50 PM, Geertjan Wielenga
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I could be wrong but I think there's a lot of confusion about what JDK
> support means in relation to Apache NetBeans.
Got it. Using NetBeans 9+ to develop applications that require JDK 10 works
now, and support for building projects for JDK 11+ will follow soon.
> The question of which JDK is used to build Apache NetBeans,
> currently JDK 8, is also a separate question.
Yes, but JDK 8 becomes an unsupported platform soon (unless you pay). When
that support ends in early 2019, I think it makes sense that NetBeans can be
built with a supported JDK.
If it can still run on Java 8, that’s cool, but making that leap from
pre-modules JDK 8 to post-modules JDK 9+ is a big step, and if backwards
compatibility concerns hold things back I don’ see that as a benefit.
There may also be a desire to use newer JDK features for the development of
NetBeans itself, or NetBeans modules. What if some new JDK tooling (e.g. the
upcoming jpackager that hopefully makes it into JDK 12) requires that the
corresponding NetBeans module that supports it can compile against that version
of the JDK?
Scott
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