Done - NetBeans dev build change to JDK8 & merge of JDK9 branch

Hello,
NetBeans dev build was changed yesterday 11/30 to be built using JDK8 
http://wiki.netbeans.org/WorkingWithNetBeansSources and jdk9 branch was 
merged to main-silver and all team repos.

Regards Martin Balin

On 18.11.2015 15:51, Martin Balin wrote:
> 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/) 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