[wildfly-dev] Smoothing the move from JDK 6 to 7

[Brian Stansberry]

Has anyone tried Intellij and Eclipse builds with this? That is, non 
command line builds. It's a maven plugin so you'd think it would Just 
Work, but you never know.

I feel guilty asking a question like this about something that AIUI was 
first conceived of 7.5 hours ago. ;)

On 8/30/13 4:46 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> At this point in time, I'd say just about everyone wants to move ahead
> with Java 7 syntax because let's face it: there's a lot of nice stuff in
> there.  But until now, doing so meant that projects which rely on
> running on JDK 6 until the heat-death of the universe are on a fast road
> to pain and suffering.
>
> Well, all that ends today... introducing "seven2six" [1], a tiny tool
> (only two source files) which losslessly converts version 51.0 (1.7)
> class files to version 50.0 (1.6).
>
> With this tool in your build, you can switch your language level to 1.7
> without alienating your 1.6 users.  I've already got this integrated
> with JBoss Modules (it's quite simple to do as the README describes).
>
> This could end Brian's major pet peeve of rooting out diamond operator
> usage in new WildFly files, among other issues.  I want to know what you
> guys think of bringing this in to WildFly (maybe even in to
> jboss-parent, honestly).  The initial version is released to Maven
> already at org.jboss.seven2six:seven2six:1.0.Final so feel free to mess
> with it and suggest improvements (just use the GH bug tracker for now I
> guess).
>
> Thanks to Kabir Khan for the original idea and implementation/POC (I
> just polished it up with ASM), and James Perkins for the Maven
> integration code.
>
> [1] https://github.com/dmlloyd/seven2six
>


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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat