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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/01/2016 09:01, John Patrick
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<div>cheers for the history Alan.</div>
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<div>I wasn't sure if 9-ea was going to be used purely during
early access or if a new structure was going to be used.</div>
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<div>is their a source file, java doc or mail list message
detailing the changes or new Java 9 setup. So I can reference
that in any potential change I submit to open source projects?</div>
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<div>looking at the submitted patch, am I right to assume
java.version going forward will be the purely a display string
value and java.specification.version should be used to work out
the major version number. Should I also assume their will be a
java.implementation.version if you need to know the low level
build number.</div>
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Best to start with JEP 223 [1]. I've no doubt that the Maven
maintainers are aware of the changes, it just might take a while to
address issues in code that parses the version string.<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/223">http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/223</a><br>
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