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We just made it TO Java 8.
by dzdt 8y ago
We just made it TO Java 8.
- nonconvergent 8y agoJava 8 is EOL in January for public support/security patches. Java 7 was EOL in 2015. What have you been doing for 3 years? I could guess, because I've been at companies doing the same. Active development and support on the product, but no time for tech debt. Java 9 and up I understand people getting frustrated with a more frequent LTS release and these weird microreleases every year.
- jsight 8y agoThere are still plenty of systems out there on Java 7, usually due to external dependencies.
- snuxoll 8y agoRed Hat and AdoptOpenJDK will be supporting OpenJDK 8 for quite some time yet. Oracle's JDK and JRE will stop getting public support, yes, but OpenJDK 8 will be alive and well for many years to come.
- nonconvergent 8y agoI was not referring to that. I was referring to the matter that they weren't ready to jump TO JDK 8 when JDK 7 was EOL, nor the next year, nor the next year after that. What did they do with security updates when they were available for the version they were on? Questions. Don't get me wrong, they're not the only ones ice skating uphill on this.
- Zardoz84 8y agoSometimes it's your clients that are painfully slow to update. I know a client that (a few years ago), after a lot of issues and wasted time, we discovered that they had a Sun JVM 1.5 with some bug on String.length ! And the worse thing is that they not like the idea of update to Java 1.7
- sebazzz 8y agoOur only java webapp is running on Java 6 or 7, JBoss EAP 6.1. Maintenance mode, no money to upgrade.