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

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 10 Dec 2013, at 19:23, Brian Fitzpatrick <bfitzpat at redhat.com> wrote:

> I we need to shift WS to build in JDK 7, that's fine. I'm honestly not sure of the need for JDK 5/6 support except for possibly runtime support back to JBoss AS 4.2. 

Do we still run the generation via the server provided scripts and in an external process ? Then this would continue to work.

If we run it in “in-process” of eclipse, then yeah - that could be a problem but doesn’t the WS generation supporting targeting different versions of the spec ?

/max

> 
> Open to suggestions. :)
> 
> I'm working on the WS test failures now - been chatting with Alessio today and hopefully we can figure out what's going on and get it fixed finally.
> 
> --Fitz
> 
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Boldt" <nboldt at redhat.com>
> To: jbosstools-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 11:18:11 AM
> Subject: [jbosstools-dev] Should we build JBT 4.2 with JDK 7?
> 
> 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,
> 
> -- 
> Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat
> Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio
> http://nick.divbyzero.com
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