WILDFLY-27-Java 8 support

[sand...@gmail.com]

Hi Team, 

I have seen the below note that wildfly 27 is not going to support JAVA SE 8. 

"We don’t plan to support Java SE 8 in WildFly 27. The WildFly 26.1 releases will be the last that support SE 8. WildFly 27 will require SE 11 or later."

I just want to confirm will it be fine to build the application on Java SE 8 (bytecode of java 8) and deploy it on Wildfly 27 with Java SE 11 runtime. Currently, we are building the application using Java SE 8 and deploying it on Wildfly 24 with both java SE 8 and  11.

Thanks,

Sandip

 

[Darran Lofthouse]

We are not specifically doing anything to WildFly to disable the use of deployments compiled against Java 8.

However, Jakarta EE 10 is setting the minimum Java version for it's APIs to be 11.

If a project is compiling against Jakarta EE 10 or a project is compiling against WildFly dependencies e.g. using our boms for WildFly 27 the project will then need to be compiled using Java 11.