[hibernate-dev] [OGM] Requiring Java 7?

[Gunnar Morling]

Hi,

In the context of the notorious JavaDoc CSS issue ([OGM-341] - an updated
stylesheet is required when building our projects with Java 7) Sanne,
Davide and I were wondering whether we should take the opportunity and
actually require Java 7 as the minimum version for Hibernate OGM, not only
at build but also at run time.

This would give us some interesting opportunities for the implementation,
language-wise (e.g. diamond operator, multi-catch) as well as library-wise
(e.g. the fork/join framework). On the downside we might exclude some users
who are still running on Java 6.

Given that OGM is a rather new project, I'd assume though that at this
point most users are in a more experimental stage of using it. I'd thus
also expect that they use a more current version than 6 which has reached
the end of its (public) support lifecycle. So this change might not effect
many in reality.

Any thoughts?

--Gunnar

[OGM-341] https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/OGM-341