Re: NetBeans dev build change to JDK8 & merge of JDK9 branch

Hi,

I’m happy to see this move to jdk8.

 

As a NetCat member I try to build often the NetBeans sources because it’s faster than to wait for builds from CI server.

 

On windows it was not possible to anticipate build on jdk8 (with the permit.jdk8.builds=true flag)

. This lead to two issue [1] and [2] that should be considered as ‘fixed’ by the work of Tomas. 

 

I tried to provide a patch on [2] that was based on the ${nb_all} properties instead of ${basedir} as it was done this wayon all projects [3] using the bootclasspath.prepend stuff (for coherence)

 

Thanks a lot for this jdk build upgrade

Best Regards

 

Eric Barboni

 

[1] <https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250848> https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250848

[2] <https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251957> https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251957

[3]

j2ee.ejbverification\nbproject\project.properties

java.hints\nbproject\ project.properties

web.jsf\nbproject\ project.properties

 

 

De : Martin Balin [mailto:[email protected]] 
Envoyé : mercredi 18 novembre 2015 15:52
À : [email protected]
Objet : [nbdev] NetBeans dev build change to JDK8 & merge of JDK9 branch

 

Hello all NB developers,

On Monday, Nov 30th there will be a change of NetBeans dev build to be run on JDK8.
The reasons for this change:

1.	JDK7 is no longer publicly supported, JDK8 is the available and supported version

1.	Number of users running NB on JDK7 is going down significantly

2.	JDK8 compilation allows NetBeans to run with JDK9 EA builds

Java 9 is under development and we have more and more users who ask us they want to experiment with NB on top of JDK9 or use JDK9 as NB Java Platform. Therefore, we will also merge an early support for JDK9 EA builds ( <https://jdk9.java.net/download/> https://jdk9.java.net/download/) to Dev builds. To satisfy this we are switching the build to JDK8. To be able to use jrtfs.jar from NB. Changes in this merge, approx 142 *.java files, should not impact modules outside Java support too much. This merge does not support "JDK9 EA with Project Jigsaw" builds.

Tomas Zezula fixed the build to run on JDK8. We work with selected developers for each team repo to make sure tests are running as well on JDK8.

What will follow:

1.	We will confirm the JDK8 build switch date no later than on Fri 11/27
2.	On Mon 11/30 we will ask all developers to hold on pushes to their team repos to allow faster propagation of JDK8 build and merger of JDK9 EA through team repos and main-silver
3.	Likely Development build of NetBeans will not be available for several days.
4.	Be ready to fix some issues in your tests/code caused by new build JDK8 or by JDK9 branch merge

Comments, questions, let me know

Thank you Martin Balin,
Development Manager
NetBeans Java support team