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

[Gunnar Morling]

2013/10/9 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>

> 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.
>

Yes, WF as EE 7 container must "provide all application components with at
least the Java Platform, Standard Edition, v7 (Java SE) APIs." (as per the
EE spec, 6.1.1).


> 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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