Ready for JDK 9 ?

[Rory O'Donnell]

Great news, thanks for the update!

Rgds,Rory


On 08/08/2017 10:59, Vincent Privat wrote:
> Hello Rory,
> Just in time ! We announced the JDK9 full compatibility less than 2 
> days ago:
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/11924
>
> The compatibility effort was significant, but shared with the whole 
> Java ecosystem (as we created bug reports to Ant, Groovy, 
> EqualsVerifier, Geotools, FindBugs/SpotBugs, ErrorProne, etc.).
>
> Aside Jigsaw, the three JDK9 changes that impacted us most were:
> 1) The Math improvements to Math.cos in b105 (JDK-8143353, see 
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/11889 + 
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/13387). It took us a long time to 
> spot why
> our floating point calculations changed in JDK9. But we noticed a huge 
> performance gain, and more accurate results too. This is a huge 
> improvement, thanks!
> 2) The deprecation of _MASK constants in favor of _DOWN_MASK constants 
> (JDK-8143077). It was not easy to switch because ActionEvent does not 
> provide extended modifiers (there's no getModifiersEx() method in this 
> class. I think it should have been added in 9, could you please 
> consider it in 10 ?).
> 3) The impossibility to disable the "proprietary API warning" in 9 (we 
> disabled it with non-supported option -XDignore.symbol.file in 8). 
> Until we switch our codebase to a version of Java providing the new 
> certificate creation API (JDK-8058778), we must keep our current 
> implementation based on sun.x509 packages. Currently the best I can do 
> is tell our Jenkins instance to filter this warning.
>
> Congrats for this major release of Java,
> Best regards,
> Vincent
>
>
>
> 2017-08-08 11:30 GMT+02:00 Rory O'Donnell <rory.odonnell at oracle.com 
> <mailto:rory.odonnell at oracle.com>>:
>
>
>     Hi Vincent,
>
>     Thank you very much for all your testing of JDK 9 during its
>     development! Such contributions have significantly helped shape
>     and improve JDK 9.
>
>     Now that we have reached the JDK 9 Final Release Candidate phase
>     [1] , I would like to ask if your project can be considered to be
>     'ready for JDK 9', or if there are any remaining show stopper
>     issues which you've encountered when testing with the JDK 9
>     release candidate.
>
>     JDK 9  b181 is available at http://jdk.java.net/9/
>
>     If you have a public web page, mailing list post, or even a tweet
>     announcing you project's readiness for JDK 9, I'd love to add the
>     URL to the upcoming JDK 9 readiness page on the Quality Outreach wiki.
>
>
>     Looking forward to hearing from you,
>     Rory
>
>     [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/
>     <http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/>
>
>     -- 
>     Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
>     Quality Engineering Manager
>     Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland
>
>

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Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland