Change Base's Bundle-RequireExecutionEnvironment to require Java8 (not 7) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-19834 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-19834 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Task Components: common/jst/core Affects Versions: 4.3.0.Alpha2 Reporter: Nick Boldt Assignee: Alexey Kazakov Fix For: 4.3.0.Beta1 To support new target platform (JBIDE-19776) which includes new Sapphire, here's a new proposal to update JBDS 9 / JBT 4.3 to require JDK 8 runtime. {quote} Proposal support matrix: * IDE installer will run wtih Java 6+ (but then user needs 8 to run it) [NO CHANGE] * IDE will ONLY run on Java 8+ [NEW for JBDS 9] * Server runtimes will run on existing JREs (from 4 - 9) [NO CHANGE] * QE actually does not test on 4 or 5, only 6+ * Java 9 is "preview / smoketest" only, not supported yet {quote} To force users to use a JDK 8 runtime to run Eclipse Mars / JBDS 9, we need to change the Base component's Bundle-RequireExecutionEnvironment to require Java8 (not 7). Not sure how many plugins should be updated this way.