Reasons to upgrade from Java 8

Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by krnaveen14 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:20AM (#26821532)

I suppose many of us (including myself) are waiting for Java 17 LTS release so that there's is a single migration phase (8 -> 17) rather than doing it now (8 -> 11) and also (11 -> 17) after few months.

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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by swsieber on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:33AM (#26821696)

I'd say that Java 8 -> 11 is going to be and order of magnitude more disruptive than 11 -> 17.

So if you have downtime now (ha ha), you might as well migrate to 11.

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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by chrisseaton on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:52AM (#26821993)

Why not put all versions of Java, including the master branch build, into your CI, then you can instantly see what it's possible to upgrade to, and instantly see when incompatibilities appear.

I don't really get what migration issues people experience in practice.

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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by tandr on Thursday April 15, 2021 @07:25PM (#26827423)

upgrading from 8 to 11 is a good step to have. You will not believe how many problems pops up. Upgrading from 8 to 17 might be a very hard exercise - libraries and all..

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