+1 to move to Java 9 On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Steve Blackmon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > There have been a few threads going back several years about whether we > could align Apache Streams components to the Reactive Streams > specification. > > This came back to me last night when I read that Reactive Streams > interfaces are built into Java 9, along with new classes under > java.util.concurrent that facilitate connecting publishers and subscribers > and handle message passing between them within a JVM. > > Wanted to bring this up on the list to find out if anyone would be > interested in working on a proof-of-concept adapting a provider to use > these new capabilities instead of or in addition to the interfaces in > streams-core, and all of that providers tests to remove the dependency on > streams-runtime-local that I think we’ve established consensus that we want > to deprecate. > > Also, to find out whether anyone is fundamentally opposed to switching to a > strict Java 9 dependency in Apache Streams, before spending significant > time working on this. As context, Oracle has announced that maintenance > releases for Java 8 will cease in September 2018. > > [email protected] >
