Java 1.8 is very old by now and is losing support from Oracle. We should roll forward to the JDK 11 standard. It should be easily available or installable both locally and at SLAC and JLAB. I don't see much need to maintain backward compatibility either. All this would require is an update to the POM file. Some user scripts and environments might need some fix-up as well to use a newer JVM.
Java 1.8 is very old by now and is losing support from Oracle. We should roll forward to the JDK 11 standard. It should be easily available or installable both locally and at SLAC and JLAB. I don't see much need to maintain backward compatibility either. All this would require is an update to the POM file. Some user scripts and environments might need some fix-up as well to use a newer JVM.