Oracle JDK 7 is at “end of public updates” as of April 1, 2015, according to
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html. IBM JDK 7 is slated
for “End of Service” in Sept 2019. So if there’s anyone interested in running
on an IBM JVM, we should probably keep support for JDK7 for a
In thinking about River future direction, and reading Peter's comments
about relevant Java 9 features, I am curious about which Java runtime
versions are being used to run River.
Specifically, what is the most recent Java version we could target for
compiling a new release without negative eff