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Support for newest version of JDK 20, 21?

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
emacs-lisp, java
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reviewing how lsp-java handles JDK versions and the linked eclipse.jdtls discussion about JDK 20 support. Determine the integration points involved, then verify that JDK 20 and 21 work in Emacs; the issue is done when both versions are supported without regressions.

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Description

Sorry if this is too soon. It seems that eclipse.jdtls already supports JDK 20

https://github.com/eclipse-jdtls/eclipse.jdt.ls/issues/2898#issuecomment-1752102021

Will we have support for JDK 21 in emacs too?

Dominant language
Emacs Lisp
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696
Forks
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