Although Java 1.8 has seen a great adoption rate, on the enterprise side
things always move very slowly.
https://twitter.com/Hibernate/status/700998618824753152
Anyway, we shouldn't be stuck with 1.6 just because some legacy systems
might not never migrate to a newer version.
Other frameworks are also considering this move, like Spring 5.0. In my
opinion, Hibernate 6.0 should also use 1.8.
Vlad
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Radim Vansa <rvansa(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Btw., when does ORM plan to drop pre-8 support altogether? 6.0?
Radim
On 03/01/2016 10:18 PM, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> Correct. hibernate-infinispan can use Java 8. As Sanne says, Infinispan
> itself requires Java 8 so limiting hibernate-infinispan to > 8 really
makes
> no sense,
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:03 PM Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org>
wrote:
>
>> In general, probably yes. The Infinispan module is a bit special
>> though, as Infinispan itself requires Java8 since Infinispan 8 so
>> noone will be able to use those modules on previous Java versions.. so
>> there's no point in avoiding pre-Java 8 code in there.
>>
>> On 1 March 2016 at 20:55, Gail Badner <gbadner(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>> I see a pull request on master for hibernate-infinispan that uses
lambda
>>> expressions. [1]
>>>
>>> There is a separate pull request for 5.0 that does not use them, so
>> there's
>>> no need to backport in this case. [2]
>>>
>>> In general, should we avoid using lambda expressions in master?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gail
>>>
>>> [1]
https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/pull/1269/files
>>> [2]
https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/pull/1268/files
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