[jbosstools-cat] Requiring Java 8 - is that a problem or not ?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 23 May 2015, at 4:21, Jim Tyrrell wrote:

> What do your stats say?

Current stats *today* on latest JBoss Tools usage. About 50/50.

This is way more than we had when looking at moving to Java 7 from Java 
6
and rejected it.

Java 8 seem to be heading towards being most used Java version very 
soon.

> Moving to JDK 8 in the context of enterprise customers feels a little 
> leading edge.

Even for desktop java versions ?

Remember this is not changing their ability to run Java 7 or older based 
apps.

/max

>
> Jim
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On May 22, 2015, at 12:54 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen 
>> <manderse at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi CAT's,
>>
>> We are considering requiring running Java 8 for JBoss Tools 4.3 and
>> Developer Studio 9.0.
>>
>> We will still support running applications and servers with any 
>> previous
>> Java version, but
>> for running the actual plugins we are considering moving to Java 8.
>>
>> Is this requirement something that would prevent you from being
>> able to update/upgrade to this upcoming release ?
>>
>> Thanks for any feedback,
>> /max
>> http://about.me/maxandersen
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/max
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