JDK9 branch will be merged to HG default

Martin Balin <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Oct 2016 10:27:23 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,
As we released NB 8.2 we will switch daily builds towards JDK9 support.

On Mon Oct 10th JDK9 branch from jet-main repo will be merged into 
master. After merge propagates through all repos dev build is compilable 
only by JDK8 and  NB Dev build will run only on JDK8.
After the merge NetBeans Java SE support (Ant project types) correctly 
recognizes JDK9 Java Platform, it works with module-info.java and basic 
edit-compile-debug-test cycle will be working. More info on JDK9 support 
is in this wiki http://wiki.netbeans.org/JDK9Support The special daily 
build of JDK9 branch will be turned off 
http://bits.netbeans.org/netbeans/nb9-for-jdk9_jigsaw/daily/latest/

We recommend to run NB dev builds on JDK8 as IDE runtime platform for 
some time it is much more stable than running on JDK9 EA. JDK9 EA build 
https://jdk9.java.net/download/ has to be used Projects Java Platform. 
We are not targeting Jigsaw builds!

We are making sure that various tests are passing so modules out of Java 
SE support will not be affected and should work normally as in 8.2 (NB 
modules which are not adapted to modulepath). It is possible that 
something might get broken.

This change will move us toward full support of JDK9 at the time of JDK9 
release next year.
Thanks',
Martin