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I've been out of the loop with the Java ecosystem, but has the transition from Java 8 to 11 completed where most of folks here work? I was also curious about l
by filereaper 5y ago
I've been out of the loop with the Java ecosystem, but has the transition from Java 8 to 11 completed where most of folks here work?
I was also curious about large ecosystems like Hadoop and their moves from 8 to 11.
- stingraycharles 5y agoI know of a number of RHEL-based deployments we’re managing that still use Java 8. In general, if you’re developing libraries, you still need to support Java 8, because there are a significant amount of enterprise deployments that use it.
- twic 5y agoI work in finance, hedge fund kind of stuff. My team has its main apps on 11, with a long tail of minor services on 8. One other team in the company has been keeping up with each release (brave souls!). Most others are in a similar place to us. I've been interviewing lots of candidates recently, and i usually chat a bit about what versions they've used. Only one is using 11, the rest are on 8. One only finished migrating to 8 this year!
- syncsynchalt 5y agoAnecdote: We _just_ fixed our last JDK11 blocker here at $corp (the groovy 2.x runtime was holding us on JDK8). Our new quality gates are likely going to keep us closer to the latest and greatest, so I don't see a lot of problems with us jumping to JDK17 sooner than later.
- jamesfinlayson 5y agoI recently finished migrating a bunch (100+) AWS Lambdas from JDK 8 to JDK 11 and it was pretty painless - unit testing was spotty at best but there were no issues. This was hastened by AWS changing the underlying Java 8 runtime to Amazon Linux - it probably would have been fine but I decided that if we were going to test a change, we might as well move to Java 11 and make the full regression test worthwhile.