[RATIS-1813] Allow ratis-shell to run in any JDK 8+ version

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0, 2.5.0
• Component/s: shell
• Assignee: Kaijie Chen
• Reporter: Kaijie Chen
• Created: 09/Mar/23 09:33
• Updated: 27/Apr/23 17:35
• Resolved: 13/Mar/23 09:48

Description

This is mainly for supporting Java 17, but any other Java 8+ version should be allowed.

Before

$ bin/ratis sh
Error: ratis-shell requires Java 8 or Java 11, currently Java 17.0.6 found. 

After

$ bin/ratis sh
[main] INFO org.reflections.Reflections - Reflections took 32 ms to scan 1 urls, producing 5 keys and 18 values
Usage: ratis sh [generic options]
	 [election [transfer] [stepDown] [pause] [resume]]         
	 [group [info] [list]]                                     
	 [peer [add] [remove] [setPriority]]                       
	 [snapshot [create]]                                       

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #851