[jbosstools-dev] Tycho 0.25.0 will require Java 8

[Nick Boldt]

FYI, when we move to Tycho 0.25 some time this year, we will also lose
support for building ANY of JBT 4.4/JBDS 10 with Java 7; we will need
to use Java 8 only.

In related news, Java 9 will be feature complete in May 2016, and
released in March 2017. http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sievers, Jan <jan.sievers at sap.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:39 AM
Subject: [tycho-user] Tycho 0.25.0 will require Java 8
To: Tycho list <tycho-user at eclipse.org>


just a heads up, while working on upgrading Tycho to a recent Neon
milestone [1], I noticed some of the eclipse bundles Tycho uses
internally have bumped their BREE to JavaSE-1.8 [2]

This means Tycho will effectively require Java 8 with the next release.
Note that you will still be able to build against/run tests using
older JDKs using maven toolchains [3,4]

Regards
Jan

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=485427
[2] https://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/plans/eclipse_project_plan_4_6.xml#appendix
[3] https://eclipse.org/tycho/sitedocs/tycho-compiler-plugin/compile-mojo.html#useJDK
[4] https://eclipse.org/tycho/sitedocs/tycho-surefire/tycho-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html#useJDK

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