I have a library which is written in Java 8 and it is consumed by some projects which are in Java 11, therefore when building the consumer projects some packages are missing like in this stack overflow thread . One of the fixes is adding compile "jakarta.xml.ws:jakarta.xml.ws-api:2.3.3", …

Is it possible to determine consumer Java version in library?

ljacomet (Louis Jacomet) April 2, 2021, 2:55pm 9

Looks like this other thread has the right answer: adding a feature variant is done by adding a capability.

See that other thread for more information.

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