[hibernate-dev] JPA 2.1 API compiled with JDK 7!?

[Emmanuel Bernard]

JPA 2.1 users cannot portably use JDK 6 but if we can we could try and
support it in our implementations. Best effort.

On Mon 2013-02-25 19:17, Gunnar Morling wrote:
> > 1) JPA 2.1 is part of EE 7 which requires SE 7
> 
> But couldn't JPA 2.1 be used in 1.6 SE environments? I guess there'd be
> users doing this. Also if 1.6 is reaching its EOL there are lots of people
> still using it. In BV the situation is similar, it is part of the EE 7 API,
> but the BV spec (and thus HV) requires only 1.6.
> 
> > And see the discussion that took place on this list over a year ago
> about O/RM and the Java 6 javac bug
> 
> I don't know the details, but could this maybe circumvented by compiling
> with javac 1.7, but using 1.6 as target level for the generated class files?
> 
> All in all I think requiring only 1.6 is very beneficial for the adoption
> of an API.
> 
> --Gunnar
> 
> 
> 2013/2/25 Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>
> 
> > Was not really a conscious decision, but keep in mind that:
> > 1) JPA 2.1 is part of EE 7 which requires SE 7
> > 2) Oracle Java SE 6 is past any support.
> >
> > And see the discussion that took place on this list over a year ago
> > about O/RM and the Java 6 javac bug
> >
> > On 02/25/2013 04:07 AM, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > when trying to use
> > >
> > > <dependency>
> > >    <groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
> > >    <artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.1-api</artifactId>
> > >    <version>1.0.0.Draft-10</version>
> > > </dependency>
> > >
> > > in Hibernate Validator I get an UnsupportedClassVersionError.
> > > Seems the API is compiled with JDK 7, which causes problems in the HV
> > build.
> > > Is the use of Java 7 intentional for the JPA API? I don't think it is
> > required, right?
> > >
> > > --Hardy
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