On 05/07/2015 08:32 PM, Alexey Kazakov wrote:

The new TP includes the updated Sapphire v. 9.0.0.201505051659.
Sapphire was updated in M7 and this version is not compatible with Sapphire v.9.0.0.201408261741 which was included in Mars TP before (M1-M6)
Batch and Arquillian tools require Sapphire. It's not a big deal for us to migrate Batch and Arquillian to new Sapphire API.
But the problem is that the new Sapphire (M7) has RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.8
Too bad this wasn't spotted earlier. Is anyone following the Sapphire mailing-list or bugzilla component?

If we can't require Java 8 for Batch and Arquillian then we have to switch to Sapphire 8.2 from 9.0 in our TP.
Sapphire 8.2 supports Mars but Mars update site includes Sapphire 9.0. only.
How are we going to deal with that?
Well, Java 7 has reached end-of-life a few days ago, so I would support the idea of requiring Java 8 for those components. If they are part of JBDS default package, then it means that JBDS will also require Java 8.
If we want to keep Java 7, we can simply include only Sapphire 8.2 in the target-platform and keep Sapphire 9.0 out. But I guess Sapphire 8.2 and 9.0 cannot be installed simultaneously; can they? If not, then we need to make sure no other project that is important to us and that we want to work together with JBoss Tools relies on newer Sapphire.
So is anyone aware of some other project that requires Sapphire and that we'd like to keep compatible with?
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