Drop Java 8 API enforcement

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Drop Java 8 API enforcement

artur-ciocanu opened this issue 4 months ago · 0 comments

Describe the proposal

Currently Dapr Java SDK uses animal-sniffer-maven-plugin to enforce Java 8 API compatibility. While we have configured Maven Compiler to use source as Java 11 and target as Java 11, we still enforce Java 8 compatibility.

The proposal is to drop Java 8 API compatibility enforcement, so we could use some of the Java 11 APIs. A few things that come to mind are Java 11 Set.of(), Map.of(), etc. This should simplify a lot of the internal configurations and avoid boilerplate like creating HashMap or Collections.singletonMap and other similar constructs.

Java 8 LTS was released on 2014-03-18 and Java 11 LTS on 2018-09-25, so I think it is OK to enforce Java 11 API compatibility instead of Java 8.