[hibernate-dev] Hibernate ORM and Java 8 usage

[Steve Ebersole]

The former.  People commit things that already assume the move to Java 8
locally to build (and test).  But at the moment we have not formalized
that, and so that causes problems when we import into an IDE - the imported
IDE project is built for 1.6 compliance and so everything we try in the IDE
fails.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:33 PM Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> > or we move to Java 8 and rely on
> > AnimalSniffer to make sure we are still compatible.
>
> WDYM by "move to Java8" exactly? Requiring it at Hibernate's build
> time, or also at runtime in user apps?
>
>
> 2016-01-11 19:49 GMT+01:00 Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>:
> > The use of Java 8 features in Hibernate ORM is starting to expand.
> Luckily
> > it is still constrained to just tests.
> >
> > However these usages make development in an IDE more and more difficult.
> > Previously this was isolated to hibernate-infinispan.  Now[1] this has
> > crept into hibernate-entitymanager.  We need to have a plan here.  Either
> > we stop using Java 8 anywhere, or we move to Java 8 and rely on
> > AnimalSniffer to make sure we are still compatible.
> >
> > Votes?  Other options?
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/commit/c2ece0108ed52d5e3a227ed0150cfb5cb1a76101
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