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Re: [glassfish-dev] Fixes that allow GlassFish 5.1 to run on both JDK 8 and JDK 11.
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 2:44 AM sawamura.hiroki@xxxxxxxxxxx
<sawamura.hiroki@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> Let me discuss the following issue on this mailing list:
> https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/glassfish/issues/22884
>
> I'm trying to modify GlassFish 5.1.0-run-with-JDK11 branch to work with both JDK 8 and JDK 11 because GlassFish 5.1 must pass TCK 8 to be compatible with Jakarta EE 8, but currently TCK 8 only works on JDK 8.
>
> - Why am I trying to run GF 5.1 on JDK 11?:
> Next Jakarta EE 9 is a tooling release, only a package migration, no feature additions. So I think most GlassFish users
> will continue to use Jakarta EE 8 for a while. On the other hand, Java SE 8 is about six years old, has an outdated API,
> and doesn't support the new encryption suite. Thus, GlassFish 5.1's support for Java SE 11, based on Jakarta EE 8, will
> be valuable to GlassFish users.
Will the Jakarta EE 9 code changes be done on the master branch or a
topic branch? I'm asking for the TCK discussion [1] about which
GlassFish branch the TCK should test (initially).
Thanks,
Scott
[1] https://www.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jakartaee-tck-dev/msg00342.html
