Re: [rest-dev] Drop Minimum Java Requirement to Java 17

["Mohamed M. El-Beltagy" <melbeltagy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I just thought of sharing a use case for your discussion that supports Java 17 over 21.

Not all static code analysis tools support Java 21.

• PMD 7, which adds support to Java 21 is not released yet. It's a release candidate at this moment.
• Sonar seems to be lacking support to Java 21 as well (cannot verify it)
  

In my case, I had to step down to Java 17 due to PMD 7.

Just to clarify, I am not using Jakarta REST directly nor will be affected by your decision here.

P.s., I would really love to actually move to Java 21 in my current project and I am all in with using Java 21 instead of 17 in your decision, but real life has it's own rules.

Best regards,

Mohamed Elbeltagy

On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 11:17:26 AM GMT+2, Markus Karg via rest-dev <rest-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Do we want people to adopt the new Jakarta REST 4.0 specification? If yes, running on Java SE 17 seems like we would get the most adoption. 

 

Frankly spoken: For those willing to move to JDK 21, yes. For that want or must stick with JDK 17, I have no problem to restrict them to JAX-RS 3.1.

 

-Markus

 

_______________________________________________
rest-dev mailing list
rest-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe from this list, visit https://accounts.eclipse.org