JDK 1.8 is deprecated and will not work on new Macs

[serasset]

There are several problems with the current status of the JDK.

Using JDK 1.8.0_281 (hotspot) on my macintosh (intel based, Mac OS Catalina), I have a problem with the compilation of bliki:

• In tests, the method isXmlEqualToContentOf from assertj is used, but it fails to format the actual and expected results the same way (I could not track down the problem, upgrading assert-j did not solve the issue).
• I can manually format both to see that html outputs are indeed equivalent, but assertj fails anyway.
• I could not track the problem which is certainly related to the default XMLParser/XMLFormatter instanciation.
• The compilation works on a debian 10 with adoptjdk-8-hotspot installed.

What will it take to update bliki for JAVA 11 (current LTS) ?

I already prepared a patched version in a (bitbucket branch) I'm using, however, I faced problems using betamax and decided to only update biki-core (and not bliki-creator neither bliki-addons whose tests highly depend on betamax).

I create this discussion to keep track of the interest of people in this issue.

[serasset]

I finally fixed my Mac OS X version of openjdk using adoptopenjdk8 (installed from homebrew).

Nevertheless, AFAIK, JDK 1.8 will not work natively on arm M1 based macs (I'll test using rosetta2 as soon as my new machine will be available).