Work done by @guyboertje and @ph
Since JRuby 1.7.25 is now EOL we are migrating Logstash to use JRuby 9k and JDK8 only,
Not much needed updating to make this work, its was mostly a drop in replacement from the previous version.
The major point was the change in the implementation of Time in JRuby, JRuby now use `java.time`
instead of joda time, this allow JRuby to have nanoseconds precision on time object.
A pack in this context is a *bundle* of plugins that can be distributed outside of rubygems; it is similar to what ES and kibana are doing, and
the user interface is modeled after them. See https://www.elastic.co/downloads/x-pack
**Do not mix it with the `bin/logstash-plugin pack/unpack` command.**
- it contains one or more plugins that need to be installed
- it is self-contains with the gems and the needed jars
- it is distributed as a zip file
- the file structure needs to follow some rules.
- As a reserved name name on elastic.co download http server
- `bin/plugin install logstash-mypack` will check on the download server if a pack for the current specific logstash version exist and it will be downloaded, if it doesn't exist we fallback on rubygems.
- The file on the server will follow this convention `logstash-mypack-{LOGSTASH_VERSION}.zip`
- As a fully qualified url
- `bin/plugin install http://test.abc/logstash-mypack.zip`, if it exists it will be downloaded and installed if it does not we raise an error.
- As a local file
- `bin/plugin install file:///tmp/logstash-mypack.zip`, if it exists it will be installed
Fixes#6168
