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CORINTHIA ¡HOTEL BUDAPEST, ¡HUNGARY – OCTOBER ¡1-­‑2, ¡2015 ¡–

Java is evolving rapidly:

Maven helps you staying on track

Hervé Boutemy - @hboutemy Arnaud Héritier - @aheritier

Goal With Apache Maven, learn how to manage Java evolutions quietly

Menu

• Appetizer

– Java duke and maven owl cocktail

• Starter

– Bytecode soup with its enforcer zest

• Main dish

– A piece of Animal Sniffer and its accompaniments

• Dessert

– The toolchain and its diligence of JDKs

Who are we?

Hervé Boutemy

• Maven Committer since 2007,
• Maven PMC Member since 2009,
• Apache Foundation Member since 2011,
• Maven PMC Chair since July 2014,
• Gave a hand on practically every Apache

Maven code, but more in depth on...

• Encoding, Maven Ant Tasks, Modello, maven-site-plugin,

Doxia,

• Archetype, Plugin Tools,
• maven-checkstyle-plugin,Toolchains, …

Arnaud Héritier

• Maven Committer since 2004,
• Maven PMC Member since 2005,
• Apache Foundation Member since 2011,
• I’m trying to not touch to the code...

– But I’m talking a lot about Apache Maven !

http://git.io/jEFs Support ¡Engineer

What is it about?

Apache Maven and you

• Who is using Maven?
• Which version in general?

– 3.3? – 3.2? – 3.1? – 3.0? – < 3.0?

We’ll learn you how to juggle

Juggle with different Java versions (JDKs, JREs) To be able to use new features from recent tools And ensure compatibility against production target Java is 20 years old

Version First ¡publication JDK ¡Alpha ¡and ¡Beta 1995 JDK ¡1.0 January, ¡1996 JDK ¡1.1 February, ¡1997 J2SE ¡1.2 ¡(playground) December, ¡1998 J2SE ¡1.3 ¡(kestrel) May, ¡2000 J2SE ¡1.4 ¡(merlin) February, ¡2002 J2SE ¡5.0 ¡(tiger) September, ¡ 2004 Java ¡SE ¡6 ¡(mustang) December, ¡2006 Java ¡SE ¡7 ¡(dolphin) July, ¡2011 Java ¡SE ¡8 March, ¡2014 Java ¡SE ¡9 Early ¡2016

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Java and you

• Who is mainly using

– Version 9 to develop? – Version 8 to develop? – Version 7 to develop? – Version 6 to develop? – Version <6 to develop? – In production? – In production? – In production? – In production? – In production?

Java and you

• Who is using many Java versions on his

development workstation and switch on a regular basis?

• Who is using a different Java version

during development and production?

The JDK choice dilemma

• Developer temptation: recent build tools, with more features,

requiring recent JDK

• Manager requirement: ensure compatibility with target

environment: often quite old JRE (and the same on whole landscape?)

• Miscellaneous strategies:

– Conservatory: JDK = min( JRE<every apps> ) + old associated tools… – Courageous: for each app, switch JDK & associated tools – Player (unaware?): recent JDK – Serious: recent JDK + CI and deep tests, with good coverage – Smart: Maven + a few configurations

Java & Apache Maven Roadmaps: 2009

Java & Apache Maven Roadmaps: 2009 …a little bit later…

Java & Apache Maven Roadmaps: early 2014

Java & Apache Maven Roadmaps: nowadays

Sources : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-­‑135779.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/lifecycle/ http://maven.apache.org/docs/history.html

Bytecode Version

Bytecode Version

• Binary backward compatibility

– JVM can execute old bytecode – but not newer bytecode, or…

• java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError

Java ¡8 ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡= ¡52 ¡(0x34) Java ¡7 ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡= ¡51 ¡(0x33) Java ¡6 ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡= ¡50 ¡(0x32) Java ¡5 ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡= ¡49 ¡(0x31) Java ¡1.4 ¡= ¡48 ¡(0x30) Java ¡1.3 ¡= ¡47 ¡(0x2F) Java ¡1.2 ¡= ¡46 ¡(0x2E) Java ¡1.1 ¡= ¡45 ¡(0x2D)

.class ¡file ¡format

• 4 ¡bytes: ¡magic ¡number
• 2 ¡bytes: ¡minor ¡version
• 2 ¡bytes: ¡major ¡version

Demo

javac & bytecode version

Javac

– Default: bytecode version = JDK version – -target defines bytecode version

Maven & bytecode version

• Maven allows to easily control the version of

the bytecode used in the project build

– By default:

• maven-compiler-plugin sets –target 1.5
• independent from JDK used

– maven-compiler-plugin’s target parameter

• plugin or pluginManagement configuration
• more compact: maven.compiler.target property

Maven & bytecode version

• Maven allows also to verify the version of

the bytecode used in project dependencies

– enforceBytecodeVersion rule from maven-enforcer-plugin

Animal Sniffer

Demo

Animal Sniffer – why?

• To check the classes and method

signatures that your compiled code uses and verify that you have use only those classes and signatures available in the API you are targeting.

Even ¡if ¡its ¡main ¡known ¡usage ¡is ¡to ¡verify ¡ the ¡compatibility ¡with ¡JDK ¡APIs, ¡Animal ¡ Sniffer ¡is ¡genericand ¡can ¡be ¡used ¡to ¡ verify ¡any ¡API ¡after ¡having ¡generated ¡its ¡ signatures.

Animal Sniffer

Example – Using a JDK 8 to compile your code must use only APIs from Java 7 How? – Provided as 3 tools : a Maven plugin, an enforcer rule, an Ant task. – Must be executed on compiled classes. Limitation – Can verify only APIs signatures. – Doesn’t cover semantic

• when an exception is thrown, …

– Detects the issue but doesn’t allow to fix it.

Toolchains & JDK

Maven Toolchains: The problem

• Nowadays JDK is choose with build tools

requirements in mind

Must ¡swap ¡constraints: ¡application ¡over ¡build

JRE used by Maven & plugins JRE to execute the application JDK used in build tasks (javac…)

Maven Toolchains: The ultimate weapon

• Allows to use a JDK to run “build” steps (compilation,

tests execution, …) different from the JRE used to launch Maven and its plugins

– You can use a recent JRE for Maven and its plugins – For each application, Maven uses the JDK version required by your project

Allows ¡to ¡easily ¡jungle ¡between ¡various ¡JDKs ¡to ¡ensure ¡there ¡is ¡no ¡ risk ¡for ¡the ¡targeted ¡application

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JRE used by Maven & plugins JRE to execute the application JDK used in build tasks (javac…)

Demo

Maven Toolchains

• Available since Maven 2.0.9 (2008/04)

1. Available tools are configured (path….) in the file ~/.m2/toolchains.xml

• 2. pom.xml configures the maven-toolchains-

plugin to select the required tool with possibly some constraints (version,…) 3. “toolchain aware” plugins will automatically use the selected tool

• Tools are configured to match the current

environment and are homogeneous across plugins

Maven Toolchains & JDK

• Toolchains is generic: can be used to

manage any type of tool

• <type>jdk</type> toolchain is directly

integrated in Maven

• “jdk-toolchain aware” plugins

– m-compiler-p, m-javadoc-p, m-surefire-p, m-webstart-p, m-jarsigner-p, exec-maven-plugin, keytool-maven-plugin, …

• Others toolchains are already existing

– protobuf, netbeans, …

Toolchains recent news

• maven-toolchains-plugin 1.1 (2014/11)

– More readable execution logs – Documentation to write new custom types

• Maven 3.3 (2015/3)

– ${maven.home}/conf/toolchains.xml – A plugin can use another tool than the one selected by the maven-toolchains-plugin

• maven-jdeps-plugin (in progress)

– uses jdeps from recent JDKs (JDK 8 or 9)

Summary

Summary

• With Java evolutions going faster (Yeahhh) the

need to mixup different versions of Java will be a more important and will increase the risk of incompatibilities

• With Maven you are ready to

– Automatically verify the compatibility by using animal sniffer and the enforcer – Use the right JDK targeted by your application by configuring the Toolchains

Demo - Bonus

• When JDK8 compiler optimizations are creating a

backward incompatibility

• + JDK 9 javac -release option
• maven-jdeps-plugin

Resources

• Animal Sniffer

– http://mojohaus.org/animal-sniffer/

• Enforcer plugin

– https://maven.apache.org/enforcer/maven- enforcer-plugin/

• Toolchains

– https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide- using-toolchains.html

• Demos

– https://github.com/MavenDemo/java-evolving-en

Q & A