Findbugs support for Java 9 about gradle

[jsotuyod]

I'm the one that started that thread on fb-discuss, and I'm also the one pushing forward a hard fork, called SpotBugs. The community is already getting behind it, and even devs from the original FindBugs team are already onboard

The fork vows to keep binary compatibility for at least a logical timeframe for people and integrations to switch before even considering breaking changes. So once we make a release, just swapping the dependency should be enough.

Right now, our priority is sorting out naming issues / website, and getting together a 3.1.0 release with proper Java 8 and Java 9 support (some detectors still don't report on lambdas, 'though they don't break when finding them). Once ready we will publish in mavenCentral and jcenter, under com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs, and we will gladly help you integrate.

[jsotuyod]

HuntBugs is @amaembo's personal project (he is an inactive FindBugs team member). It's not a fork, but a complete rewrite upon a different set of libraries, and is therefore incompatible with existing integrations / plugins. It has been able to reproduce ~40% of FindBugs' detectors. It's development is dormant at the moment as he is focusing his efforts on writing detectors for IntelliJ IDEA's analyzer. There are no concrete plans AFAIK to resume development in the short-term.

All this is taken from @amaembo's email on that same topic: https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/pipermail/findbugs-discuss/2016-November/004324.html

[wolfs]

Looks like this could never happen: I'm really sorry to say, but FindBugs project in its current form
is dead.

[eriwen]

Nice @jsotuyod!

[huxi]

There's also https://github.com/amaembo/huntbugs
I don't know if spotbugs/huntbugs collaborate in some way. Maybe @jsotuyod and @amaembo can chime in about this. Just mentioning it for the sake of completeness.

[bmuschko]

I asked about this again it looks like FindBugs will never support Java 9. SpotBugs is the replacement. I am going to close this issue. If FindBugs should ever support Java 9 then we can reopen this issue.