Posted by Sven Gothel on Mar 04, 2023; 2:59pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Current-JOGL-download-based-on-Java-8-tp4042268p4042277.html

Its not so easy .. :)

Our source tree is actually Java8 API compatible,
while we do build using (now) Java17 with an injected Java8 RT.

See text in this little file here.

However, as Julien mentioned, we might not have a suitable Java thing on certain platforms like MacOS.
So we can't test and may even inject native library dependencies to a native Java lib (AWT?) here.

Bottom line, it needs extra care and work to produce a Java8 compatible beast _and_ test it.
So far, I got confirmation on Windows and Linux that our last 2.4.0 build works with Java8.
MacOS might differ ...