Re: Move to Java 11 (Java 8 deprecated)

[TomVanBraband]

Hello @Rick-at-KUBRA,

You can find the reason for this move here: SonarCloud scanner environment soon to require Java 11+.

@Rick-at-KUBRA

But the wholesale forcing of clients to only do scans with Java 11 will cause a bunch of problems. My biggest one today is that my SonarCloud scans are run by TravisCI while it is building my code, so in essence I could maybe do the scan with Java 11 if I did a totally separate build just for Sonar with Java 11 with advanced TravisCI features or a different toolset. In any case, a bunch of work on my part.

You do not have to define a totally separate build, you can have two Java versions available in one build environment. We only require the scanner to be launched with Java 11, the rest of your build process can still use Java 8 in the same environment.

Hope that clears some things up,
Tom