[keycloak-dev] Is keycloak Java 8 only now? Where is it documented?

[Vlastimil Elias]

Sure thing, I only want to be sure what is going on and if it is
documented properly.
Looks like EAP 6.4 can run on Java 8 so it shouldn't be so big problem
for us.

Vlastimil

On 8.1.2016 13:53, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> Java 8 is now required to build due to switch to WildFly 10. The
> target Java version is inherited from JBoss parent
> (https://github.com/jboss/jboss-parent-pom/blob/master/pom.xml#L132).
>
> Next release (1.8) will require Java 8 on server-side, but still
> support Java 7 on the client-side.
>
> Oracle stopped supporting Java 7 early last year, so maybe it's time
> to move on ;)
>
> I'll update the readme's though.
>
> On 8 January 2016 at 13:40, Vlastimil Elias <velias at redhat.com
> <mailto:velias at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I rebased my local Keycloak source codes to latest master
>     yesterday, and
>     got compilation error in
>     org.keycloak.models.sessions.infinispan.InfinispanUserSessionProvider
>     class, because of import of classes from java.util.function package.
>     Investigation shown me that these classes are available in Java 8+
>     only.
>
>     Does this mean that next version of Keycloak (1.8) is targeted to
>     run on
>     Java 8 only?
>
>     Is this documented somewhere? Main readme at
>     https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak still states "Ensure you have
>     JDK 7
>     (or newer)" in build section. And I was not able to find any other
>     info
>     about required java version in user doc (eg Installation chapter).
>
>     And I also realized that Keycloak's parent pom file (and all subprojet
>     poms also) miss any information about target java version.
>     There was this definition in pom file a year ago, but looks like Stian
>     removed it 9 months ago:
>
>             <!-- maven-compiler-plugin -->
>
>             <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
>
>             <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
>
>     This brings a small problem when importing the project into
>     Eclipse, as
>     it is not able to correctly set java version for the project.
>     But maybe there is some reason why this is not in the pom? (I can
>     imagine that adapters use lower java version than the Keycloak server)
>
>     Is it possible to clear this somehow, at least in the documentation?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Vlastimil
>
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>     Vlastimil Elias
>     Principal Software Engineer
>     Developer Portal Engineering Team
>
>
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Vlastimil Elias
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