Re: JDK9 branch will be merged to HG default

Excellent.

> On 6 Oct. 2016, at 19:27, Martin Balin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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