Re: Let's move Surefire project to JAVA 9. Surefire and Failsafe stop working on latest versions of Windows due to missing wmic.

FWIW, it would make more sense to switch to an LTS version, the
closest being 11.

Gary

On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 7:22 PM Tibor Digaňa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to have your opinion regarding this issue reported on GitHub:
> "Surefire and Failsafe stop working on latest versions of Windows due to
> missing wmic"
> Please see the link here
> https://github.com/apache/maven-surefire/issues/3176
>
> I am the author who developed the PPID Process Checker. When I worked on it
> together with Michael Osipov, we reached a consensus. It was a very nice
> personal collaboration, and now I would be glad to have this guy back in
> the active Maven Team again :-)
> That time we used Java 7 or Java 8, or even both, however Java 9 was
> available in the world. We could not use the Java 9 however it could really
> help us. Therefore we decided to call the system library "wmic" on Windows,
> and "ps" on *Nix world, and not Java 9.
>
> Due to the Microsoft Windows removed "wmic", I am open to move complete
> Surefire project under Java 9.
>
> I remember how problematic life it was when we had to support both Java 7
> and Java 8 at the same time. I do not want to support two Java versions
> again.
> It would be easier for us to get a confidence from the Maven community and
> switch to Java 9 directly.
> I hope we would get an exception in the list of Maven plugins.
>
> BTW, One more remark. There are strengths to destroy this project. Let's
> ignore these strengths. We can prevent from this happening if we are
> positive and we are friendly working together.
>
>
> Cheers
> Tibor17