Java 17 Masterplan Part II

[cdietrich]

This is for the left-overs from #1982

• Guice 5.1.0 update? Guice upgrade to 7.0.0+ #2056
• guava update? Update to Guava 32.0.1+ #2101
• Gradle 7.6 Update to Gradle 7.6 #2079
• Java 8/11 Debts #2009
• Update to EMF 2022-03 (2.29.0) #2127
• deal with all the deprecations
• org.eclipse.xtext.builder.standalone.compiler.CompilerConfiguration - change default version to 1.8 or even better 11
• Adapt & Cleanup Wizard and Tests remove J8 support from wizard eclipse/xtext-core#2020 dont propose Java 6-10 in Wizard anymore eclipse/xtext-eclipse#1936
• adapt minimum deps for platform/jdt/mwe/junit in manifests #2125
• jetty for xtext-web/wizard Update to Jetty 11 #2235
• change all tests to run with Java 11 as minimun eclipse/xtext-maven#186
• Adapt Maven plugin tests to run with java 11 in pom configs eclipse/xtext-xtend#1391
• cleanup switches in code
• cleanup switches in tests
• cleanup obsolete reflection
• Check if we can remove the Class.forName guards for CodeMining eclipse/xtext-eclipse#1963
• remove reflection hack remove inlineJsrBytecode following upstream removal in jdt #3189
• remove tests relying on older versions of Java and platforms
• increment Maven version in Maven plguins

[cdietrich]

see also #2686

[cdietrich]

Guice and Guava Update done too

[LorenzoBettini]

@cdietrich IIRC, the minimal target will be 2024-03, and we will get rid of all the other older target platforms, right?

[cdietrich]

Correct