Java 9 Support

[Paul Gross]

Are there plans to support java 9? I realize it's still early:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2015-May/002172.html

The reason I'm asking is I was able to get JShell (java 9's REPL) working with a bazel built project. JShell doesn't work with java 8, however, and bazel doesn't work with java 9. So I have to bazel build with 8 and then run the jars with 9.

The specific error I'm getting is:

% bazel build //...

Problem with java installation: couldn't find/access rt.jar in /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-oracle

It looks like java 9 removes rt.jar:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/11/JavaModularityIsGo

Thanks,

Paul

[Damien Martin-guillerez]

Hello Paul,

Normally, Java 9 is supported (I.e, you should be able to build using with source / target 9 and we should be able to run on Java 9). This is just a check that we can fix IIRC. I cannot guarantee there is more problem after that.

We are going to drop Java 7 support next week after the beta and I can probably have a look at that at the same time we drop Java 7.

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[Paul Gross]

Sounds good. Thanks!

[Damien Martin-guillerez]

Filed https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/428

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