Java support

[Constantine A. Murenin]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 04:19, Kurt Jaeger <pi at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > With the Java FreeBSD mailing list pretty quiet, I thought I might ask
> > here whether anyone was working on porting the latest Java versions over
> > to FreeBSD.
>
> There's the openjdk port, java/openjdk8.
>
> You are asking about input from the FreeBSD community to openjdk9, 10 and
> 11 ?
>
> > While Java 8 will be quite satisfactory for a while, the longer Java
> > advances without BSD patches the harder it will be to bring across all
> > the good work done for Java 8 on FreeBSD.
>
> This is correct.
>
> > Are there plans for the Foundation to sponsor some work in this area?
>
> Your point is, that the FreeBSD community should do regular testbuilds for
>
> https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk9u/
> https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk10u/
> https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk11u/
>
> and provide patches if something does not build or work, right ?
>
> And, if necessary, fund someone to do that work ?


Just looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history, it
would appear that Java 9 and Java 10 are no longer supported, and, FWIIW,
Java 8 is actually planned to be supported longer than Java 11, at least in
the context of AdoptOpenJDK, so, there's that.

C.