The Java product platforms described on this page have no currently supported Shibboleth products associated with them, and are therefore of only historic interest.
Java 8 Platform
The Java 8 platform was based on Java 8 as both a development and execution environment.
This was an interim platform used during the development transition from Java 7 to Java 11. We do not plan to release any products using this platform.
Java 7 Platform
The Java 7 platform (also referred to as the V3 platform after the related Shibboleth IdP version) is based on Java 7 as both a development and execution environment.
This platform is used by the following preview product:
Metadata Aggregator v0.9.2
It was also used by the following products which have reached their end-of-life date and are no longer supported:
Identity Provider v3.x
OpenSAML v3.x
Java XML Security Tool v2.x
The following execution environments are supported by this product platform:
Java 7
Java 8
Java 11
Java 6 Platform
The Java 6 platform (also referred to as the V2 platform) was based on a minimum of Java 6 as both a development and execution environment. It was used by the V2 Shibboleth Identity Provider. It is not used by any currently supported Shibboleth products.