Re: [rest-dev] Drop Minimum Java Requirement to Java 17

[Arjan Tijms <arjan.tijms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 at 01:00, Alessio Soldano <asoldano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm possibly not following you here, sorry (I'm not trying to convince anyone, really just following your reasoning). Is requiring Java 17 or greater (for something that does not need more than that) equal to saying there will be implementations which do not support Java 21?

It's the other way around. If the API has a minimum version of Java X, then every implementation must at least be at X as well. It dictates the minimum for the entire chain.

Perhaps our API would even compile against JDK 6 or 7 still. Is there even anything JDK 8 specific in it? But compiling on 6 would hold our community back, as there would be no guarantees even JDK 8 can be used, let alone 11, 17 or 21.

Kind regards,

Arjan Tijms

 

 

Kind regards,

Arjan Tijms

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Alessio Soldano

Manager, Software Engineering 

Red Hat

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Alessio Soldano

Manager, Software Engineering 

Red Hat