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> The expiration date for JRE 8 is 05/15/2014 How long till most people will target 8? I think we will wait for at least a few patches first.
by netcraft 13y ago
> The expiration date for JRE 8 is 05/15/2014
How long till most people will target 8? I think we will wait for at least a few patches first.
- lmm 13y agoMy employer was using it already, via the prerelease builds (until we found new relic didn't work with it).
- kyrra 13y agoFor clarity, expiration date[0] is just means the JRE will not be considered "up-to-date" anymore. At that point, the JRE will check for updates and ask the user to upgrade. [0] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/client-security.html#jexpire http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/c...
- maaaats 13y agoWe only do backend stuff here, which means we have perfect control over versions. So we're already ready for running 8, and will do so soon.
- mtct 13y ago3-5 years as usual
- benjiweber 13y agoWe've using 8 in production for some time, as we slowly migrate things to it. We didn't want to start new projects without using Java 8 language features as it's such a dramatic change. It has been feature frozen for a long time and even the pre-release builds have had a lot more testing and stabilisation than other software that people don't think twice about using. There is of course a risk adopting new technology early, it depends what kind of things you are building/running.