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I was thinking about setting up a Java EE 7 framework to run Spring applications on Glassfish, which depends on JDK 7. However, we already have JDKs compatible with the newer specifications of Java 8 and Java 9. Would anyone happen to know whether Glassfish 4.x can run on these newer Java servers, or whether the current implementation of Glassfish uses any since-deprecated APIs from Java 7? I really appreciate it.

ELI BRADLEY
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I assume you are using the Open Source Edition and not the Enterprise one (which is 3.x as of now).

If that is the case, on the Glassfish download page the requirements listed are as follows:

Java EE 7 requires JDK 7 or above, JDK 8 u60 or above is recommended for GlassFish 4.1.1.

So you can safely use JDK 7 or 8.

You may try JDK 9 as well, but it's not supported, since it has not been released yet.

dawud
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  • For the benefit of others...GlassFish will not (currently) work on JDK 9 due to Sun making use of a lot of internal classes which are inaccessible in JDK 9 thanks to Jigsaw. – Mike Dec 05 '16 at 13:33
  • What about OpenJDK versus Oracle JDK? not to hijack, but a compatability table... – Thufir Nov 01 '17 at 01:21