Re: Maven Artifact JDK Suffix

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 06:24:21 -0500, Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I would have to agree with this. I think people will be surprised (not
in a
> good way) if we upgrade to java 9 and all of a sudden maven pulls down
JDBC
> for java 9

As far as I know, starting with Java 9 this problem could be solved with
multi-release JARs (JEP-238, http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/238). The main
content could then be Java 8, and the Java 9 versions of classes could go
into META-INF/versions/9 (assuming that is the final way JEP-238 will be
realised, I am not sure if it is already in). For efficiency it would be
best to only put in a Java 9 version of classes that really need a Java 9
version.

Mark