On 03/01/2016 09:01, John Patrick wrote:
cheers for the history Alan.
I wasn't sure if 9-ea was going to be used purely during early access
or if a new structure was going to be used.
is their a source file, java doc or mail list message detailing the
changes or new Java 9 setup. So I can reference that in any potential
change I submit to open source projects?
looking at the submitted patch, am I right to assume java.version
going forward will be the purely a display string value and
java.specification.version should be used to work out the major
version number. Should I also assume their will be a
java.implementation.version if you need to know the low level build
number.
Best to start with JEP 223 [1]. I've no doubt that the Maven maintainers
are aware of the changes, it just might take a while to address issues
in code that parses the version string.
-Alan
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/223
