bazel: Use a hermetic Java toolchain compiling for Java 8 #671
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This simplifies the setup for contributors as well as the release process. Since we can't use
--release 8
, we still need to check compatibility with Java 8 runtime libraries in our CI, which still uses the local JDK 8 to run tests against.Also removes stamping from Maven builds as we already have the version number baked in.