On Monday, October 27, 2025 at 10:37:49 AM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
https://devclass.com/2025/01/30/state-of-java-report-shows-strong-migration-from-java-8-rise-of-apache-spark/ from January 2025 lists 46% of Java projectcs being on Java 8 and older. I'm not aware of stats about GWT usage; my assumption is that not too many new projects are being started with GWT these days. There may well be a correlation of GWT users with users of older JDKs. For us, with https://github.com/SAP/sailing-analytics we have been using GWT since 2011. Our production runtime is still on SAPJVM8 for a number of reasons, although we also ensure runtime compatibility up to Java 24. […] Just keep the 46% in mind, most of which you've already cut off when requiring Java 11... Server runtime is different from GWT tooling at dev/build time. GWT server libs (gwt-servlet, requestfactory-server) still support running on Java 8: https://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html#Release_Notes_2_12_0 What we're talking about (still, I believe) is requiring JDK 17+ for running the GWT compiler and code server. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/3d5fee61-a423-4a43-b55b-0e8b7055c669n%40googlegroups.com.
