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

What is gained needs to be balanced by what you are giving up. OGM itself is new, but at the end of the day its a JPA provider which is not new. Basing on Java 7 will limit adaption from folks wanting to drop OGM in to their app as replacement for their JPA provider to give it a spin in certain environments.

On Wed 09 Oct 2013 07:54:14 AM CDT, Sanne Grinovero wrote: > +1 for requiring Java7 > > On 9 October 2013 12:55, Gunnar Morling <gunnar(a)hibernate.org&gt; 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<https://hibernate.atl... >> ______________________________**_________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/**mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev<https://lists... >> > ______________________________**_________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/**mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev<https://lists... >