[hibernate-dev] JDK8 build jobs!

I've installed a preview build of JDK8 on ci.hibernate.org, and created jobs for: - ORM - OGM - Search Gunnar is adding Validator. There are some exceptions that we should investigate; one of them is Animal Sniffer breaks. I've debugged it and came to the conclusion it doesn't work because it uses ASM to actually inspect the bytecode, and it should use ASM 5 to be able to parse the bytecode produced by the Java8 build. Ideally we should build with Java7 (since we'll be releasing with Java7) and then run the tests only with Java8, but having concluded that it's not a JDK8 regression but simply a limitation of the plugin being outdated, I've opted for running these builds with: -Danimal.sniffer.skip=true We should look at the other failures now: we could implement workarounds in our code, but it's of higher value to identify potential regressions in the JDK and report these quickly: that would allow people to move on to Java8 even when they are stuck with an older release of our libraries. Cheers, Sanne