[infinispan-dev] Baselining on Java 7

[Manik Surtani]

Just to clarify, Infinispan 6.0 will *not* baseline on Java 7.  

My email is just to get a feel of who still requires Java 6.  My gut feel is that we're at least a year away from baselining on Java 7, possibly for Infinispan 8.0 (and JGroups 5.0).

- M

On 23 May 2013, at 12:11, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at infinispan.org> wrote:

> WildFly already requires Java7.
> 
> Hibernate Search will likely stay a bit longer on 6, and depends on
> Infinispan, but this dependency is an isolated module so we can live
> with it by making our build a bit more painful. Users would then need
> Java7 only if they want to use the Infinispan extensions.
> 
> Sanne
> 
> On 23 May 2013 12:06, Bela Ban <bban at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 5/23/13 12:38 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>>> Yup, it needs to happen sometime.  But the question is, when?
>>> 
>>> Is there anyone out there who desperately needs Infinispan to work on Java 6?
>> 
>> I got a lot of pushback when I moved the required JDK in JGroups to 1.5
>> (people were still using 1.4), and the same for moving from 1.5 to 1.6,
>> so I anticipate this won't be different for moving to 1.7 as baseline.
>> 
>> I personally would not mind waiting for JGroups 5 to move to JDK 7, as
>> this gives users a bit more time and I won't require JDK 7 before
>> JGroups 5 anyway, as the NIO2 stuff won't be in JGroups 4, only in 5.
>> 
>> But if you guys need to move to JDK 7 in Infinispan 6 already, then
>> that's fine with me, too.
>> 
>> I guess the AS has some requirements, too, so if they decide to move to
>> JDK 7, then we'll have to make that move too
>> 
>> --
>> Bela Ban, JGroups lead (http://www.jgroups.org)
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