[jbosstools-dev] Should we build JBT 4.2 with JDK 7?

[Nick Boldt]

Three of the projects in JBoss Tools use JDK 7 for testing: Server, 
Webservices, and now Forge 2.

This is accomplished in Jenkins like this:

<jvmOptions>-Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m 
-Djbosstools.test.jre.5="${NATIVE_TOOLS}${SEP}${JAVA15}" 
-Djbosstools.test.jre.6="${NATIVE_TOOLS}${SEP}${JAVA16}" 
-Djbosstools.test.jre.7="${NATIVE_TOOLS}${SEP}${JAVA17}"</jvmOptions>

But all the projects still use JDK 6 to compile.

<jdk>java16_default</jdk>


Is that OK? Or is it time to consider moving to JDK 7 for building as 
well as running tests?


If this warrants a JIRA, please open one and link to it from here. If 
not, discuss why it makes sense to stay with JDK 6 for compilation.

If your project needs JDK 7 to run tests, and is not listed above, 
please open a JIRA or fix your _42 and _master jobs directly. If you 
can't fix your job (not sure how or don't have permission), email me or 
JIRA me and I'll fix your jobs for you.

Cheers,

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Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat
Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio
http://nick.divbyzero.com