I'm working in a company that has many projects in Java 8. Those projects are valued as old, and our team would like to upgrade the version. However, we need valid points in order to unlock the situation.
Those projects are using Spring and Hibernate (if it's ever useful).
What factual points could we give to our company to upgrade the versions, if any factual points there is ?
Examples of useful, valid points would be:
- Security improvements
- Performances improvements
- New libraries or framework updates which could ease the development process
- New possibilites/features with an upgraded Java Version
- ...
Possibly, backed up with documentation or links to useful resources.