[DERBY-6974] Deprecate support for building Derby under JDK 8

• Type: Task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 10.15.1.3
• Component/s: Build tools
• Urgency: Normal
• Assignee: Richard N. Hillegas
• Reporter: Richard N. Hillegas
• Created: 24/Oct/17 02:00
• Updated: 15/Nov/17 13:38

Description

In July, the Derby community voted to deprecate support for JDK 8 and move development on the 10.15 trunk to JDK 9. See http://apache-database.10148.n7.nabble.com/RESULT-VOTE-Sunsetting-support-for-Java-8-td147735.html

This issue tracks the work of converting the Derby build from JDK 8 to JDK 9 and higher. This effort relies on the work already done on DERBY-6856.

Platform-specific distributions of Oracle JDK 9 can be found here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk9-downloads-3848520.html

Issue Links

• relates to: DERBY-6856 Make it possible to build Derby using JDK 9