Java 9 support?

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Chris West <solo-basex at goeswhere.com> wrote: > Debian and Ubuntu are looking to move to Java 9 for their next releases, > for all possible packages. basex currently fails to build with Java 9 > due to some rather boring errors: > > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.6.1:compile (default-compile) on project basex: Compilation failure: Compilation failure: > [ERROR] /build/basex-8.5.1/basex-core/src/main/java/org/basex/query/func/inspect/Inspect.java:[34,3] reference to Module is ambiguous > [ERROR] both class org.basex.query.Module in org.basex.query and class java.lang.Module in java.lang match > [ERROR] /build/basex-8.5.1/basex-core/src/main/java/org/basex/gui/GUIInput.java:[253,13] incompatible types: javax.swing.JComboBox<java.lang.String> cannot be converted to javax.swing.JComboBox<java.lang.Object> > [ERROR] /build/basex-8.5.1/basex-core/src/main/java/org/basex/query/func/crypto/MyKeySelector.java:[51,44] incompatible types: java.util.List<javax.xml.crypto.XMLStructure> cannot be converted to java.util.List<java.lang.Object> > > Would there be any interest in fixing these? The website suggests that > any version of Java is supported, and Java 9 will be out soon (~31 days). > > I can have a go at a pull request, but I'd not heard of basex before > today, so maybe someone else would like a stab at it. > > I had a quick poke through the mailing list archives, and can't see any > other discussion about this; sorry if it's been brought up before. > > Chris. >