Re: [wildfly-dev] Moving WildFly 9 to Java 8?

On Feb 11, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Jason T. Greene <jason.greene(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: I don't understand the hurry. > On Feb 9, 2015, at 3:20 PM, Tomaž Cerar <tomaz.cerar(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > Hi folks, > > we agreed that WildFly 10+ is going to require Java 8, given that its release date is planned well after JDK7 will be EOL-ed. [1] > > Looking at all discussion and new projects / components already require JDK8 (Eltryon, new WildFly client, Weld 3,...) for development. > I was wondering if we could move WildFly 9 to Java 8 as well? > > According to current release plan WF9 should be release around the same time JDK7 is EOL-ed (April 2015) [1] > > Pros of moving to JDK8 early: > - components can use JDK8 eariler --> better testing > - supporting JDK9 will be easier (-XX:MaxPermSize fails to start JVM on 9) > - support for TLS SNI (think of it as virtual hosts for SSL) > - better ciphers and many other security related improvements > - nashorn (fast javascript engine) > - better concurrency libs > - easier testing, one less JDK combo to test on CI > > and of course all of the language improvements, lambda ftw! > > Cons of moving early > > - back porting of code could be impaired > - there is currently no non beta release of IBM JDK8 > > There are probably other pros & cons but in general I think it would be better to upgrade early as there will be many > hidden issues with new Java 8 features people want to use but are server doesn't understand currently, mostly here > are features like enhanced type annotations and default methods. > > This problem are and will creep up more and more often as adoption of Java 8 is quite good already [2] and still rising. > > so what do you guys think? Should we move for WildFly or should we wait for 10 as planned? > > -- > tomaz > > > [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > [2] http://jaxenter.com/java-2-111936.html > _______________________________________________ > wildfly-dev mailing list > wildfly-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/wildfly-dev _______________________________________________ wildfly-dev mailing list wildfly-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/wildfly-dev