Re: [hibernate-dev] [OGM] Requiring Java 7?

No strong opinion. To me Java 7 is of little value. Java 8 on the other hand...

BTW, will we have trouble with servers that do expect Java 6? I suspect WF is already on 7 so we don't have that problem on that side.

Emmanuel On Wed 2013-10-09 13:55, Gunnar Morling wrote: > Hi, > > In the context of the notorious JavaDoc CSS issue ([OGM-341] - an updated > stylesheet is required when building our projects with Java 7) Sanne, > Davide and I were wondering whether we should take the opportunity and > actually require Java 7 as the minimum version for Hibernate OGM, not only > at build but also at run time. > > This would give us some interesting opportunities for the implementation, > language-wise (e.g. diamond operator, multi-catch) as well as library-wise > (e.g. the fork/join framework). On the downside we might exclude some users > who are still running on Java 6. > > Given that OGM is a rather new project, I'd assume though that at this > point most users are in a more experimental stage of using it. I'd thus > also expect that they use a more current version than 6 which has reached > the end of its (public) support lifecycle. So this change might not effect > many in reality. > > Any thoughts? > > --Gunnar > > [OGM-341] https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/OGM-341 > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev