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State of Gradle Java 9 Support
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Project Jigsaw: Late for the train: The Q&A | Mark Reinhold
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| | [AI summary] Oracle Chief Architect Mark Reinhold answers community questions regarding the decision to defer Project Jigsaw's modular JDK to Java 9 and outlines a strategic shift to a two-year release cycle.
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The Anatomy of ct.sym - How javac Ensures Backwards Compatibility - Gunnar Morling
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| | One of the ultimate strengths of Java is its strong notion of backwards compatibility: Java applications and libraries built many years ago oftentimes run without problems on current JVMs, and the compiler of current JDKs can produce byte code, that is executable with earlier Java versions. For instance, JDK 16 supports byte code levels going back as far as to Java 1.7; But: hic sunt dracones. The emitted byte code level is just one part of the story. It's equally important to consider which APIs of the ...
| | benjiweber.co.uk
InstanceOf "Smart Casts" with Java 8 Lambdas
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Build is platform dependent
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| [AI summary] A technical guide explaining how to fix Maven build warnings related to platform-dependent file encodings by configuring the project.build.sourceEncoding and project.reporting.outputEncoding properties to UTF-8.