[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-2949) Require Java 7 for the IDE

Max Rydahl Andersen created JBDS-2949: ----------------------------------------- Summary: Require Java 7 for the IDE Key: JBDS-2949 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2949 Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio) Issue Type: Feature Request Security Level: Public (Everyone can see) Reporter: Max Rydahl Andersen Run the IDE with Java 7 (Java 6 no longer supported) (Users applications and servers can still use older and newer JDK’s like Java 1.4,5,6, 8 etc.) P1 Java 6 is no longer supported by Oracle and by requiring Java 7 we can use better native IO and JavaFX (only on oracle) Forge already requires Java 7. Concerns: If we do not run with Java 6 we cannot support Xulrunner based VPE on OSX. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira