Java8

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Why Java 8 is not dead

  • Because Java 9 breaks things
  • Because Java 10 breaks more things
  • Because Java 11 breaks even more things
  • Because Java >=12 will surely break more of the stuff that has been working perfectly for years

And the cost/benefit relation of moving along Oracle's ideas seems not worthwile.

Examples

Mediawiki-Japi

Problem

Oracle decided to remove APIs 

Mediawiki-Japi/src/main/java/com/bitplan/mediawiki/japi/api/Page.java:[34,33] package javax.xml.bind.annotation does not exist

Solution

Do not use Oracle 

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
 # this is a java project using maven
 language: java
+# make sure things keep working see http://wiki.bitplan.com/index.php/Java8
+jdk: openjdk8
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