Sounds good! I mentioned it on Slack too, but I'll also post it here - I
have an example implementation at
https://github.com/mattwelke/packt-book-bot.

- Matt

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 8:46 AM Rodric Rabbah <rod...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing this Matt - it's on my stack to look at. We should
> really upgrade our Java runtime for actions.
>
> -r
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 1:43 AM Matt Welke <mattwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I posted this on Slack. Figured it'd be nice to copy it in here too:
> >
> > > Hey I just realized I forgot to share this here before:
> > https://github.com/ow-extended-runtimes/java-17
> > >
> > > *comment from rr*
> > >
> > > You might remember that around June I proposed a new API for the Java
> > runtime to enable us to move from Java 8 to Java 11. We ended up deciding
> > it would be good to wait until we can do all runtimes so that they don't
> > get inconsistent.
> > > I ended up getting busy and I thought that was too ambitious so I
> didn't
> > return to the issue on the mailing list. No one else has yet either. But
> > maybe doing just the Java runtimes (and accepting that they'd be
> different
> > from the other language runtimes) would be okay. If so, I'm happy to
> > contribute. In the meantime, I figured I'd just make it an unofficial
> thing
> > for my own use, but shared in public.
> > > I'm also not using the action loop intentionally because I don't think
> it
> > adds any performance and I think it makes things more complex for each
> > runtime than they need to be. For example, because there's no action loop
> > here, I don't need to worry about Python being part of the build process
> or
> > having a complex hierarchy of container images. It's just a Java image.
> > We'd want to talk about whether actionloop would be used if I contributed
> > this.
> >
> > Matt
> >
>

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