Adding jbosstools-fuse-dev As this is a tooling requirement and not a runtime requirement, I suspect customers might be ok-ish with it? If I was a customer I would be asking why. What do I get for the trouble of installing yet another version of Java? And what do I lose? Java 7 EOL definitely works as a motivator. --Fitz _______________________________ Brian Fitzpatrick (aka "Fitz") Senior Software Engineer, Tooling JBoss by Red Hat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Boldt" <nboldt(a)redhat.com&gt; To: external-exadel-list(a)redhat.com, "soa-tools-list" <soa-tools-list(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Lincoln Baxter, III" <lincolnbaxter(a)gmail.com&gt; Sent: Friday, May 8, 2015 1:01:49 PM Subject: Re: Dumping java 7 support for *running* Developer studio 8? So, just to recap the votes for moving to Java 8 as prereq. -- Max: yes, but must determine how users will run Java 7 annotation processing with JDK 8 as APIs are (?) incompatible. QE to investigate. Fred: yes, +100 Denis: yes, but need better user awareness Alexey: yes, but need to fix JBIDE-19500 Nick: yes, 7 it's one less JVM to QE (assuming concern above resolved). -- Votes for staying on Java 7: none so far. -- On 05/08/2015 01:09 PM, Alexey Kazakov wrote: -- Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio http://nick.divbyzero.com