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

[Gunnar Morling]

2013/10/9 Steve Ebersole <steven.ebersole at gmail.com>

> What is gained needs to be balanced by what you are giving up.
>
> OGM itself is new, but at the end of the day its a JPA provider which is
> not new.  Basing on Java 7 will limit adaption from folks wanting to drop
> OGM in to their app as replacement for their JPA provider to give it a spin
> in certain environments.


Yes, that's true. Hard to say how many such cases there would be without
some real figures. Maybe it's just not worth taking the risk.




> On Wed 09 Oct 2013 07:54:14 AM CDT, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>
>> +1 for requiring Java7
>>
>> On 9 October 2013 12:55, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> 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<https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/OGM-341>
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