[infinispan-dev] Infinispan Test language level to Java 8?

[Galder Zamarreño]

On 30 Apr 2014, at 13:36, Galder Zamarreño <galder at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Just thinking out loud: what about we start using JDK8+ for all the test code in Infinispan?
> 
> The production code would still have language level 6/7 (whatever is required…).
> 
> This way we start getting ourselves familiar with JDK8 in a safe environment and we reduce some of the boiler plate code currently existing in the tests.
> 
> This would only problematic for anyone consuming our test jars. They’d need move up to JDK8+ along with us.

Another potential problem, as rightly pointed out by Will on IRC, is that it would also cause issues for anyone trying to run our testsuite with JDK7 or earlier, if anyone is doing such a thing.

> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> p.s. Recently I found https://leanpub.com/whatsnewinjava8/read which provides a great overview on what’s new in JDK8 along with small code samples.
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