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

[Emmanuel Bernard]

No strong opinion.
To me Java 7 is of little value. Java 8 on the other hand...

BTW, will we have trouble with servers that do expect Java 6? I suspect
WF is already on 7 so we don't have that problem on that side.

Emmanuel

On Wed 2013-10-09 13:55, Gunnar Morling wrote:
> 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
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