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

[Stian Thorgersen]

It'll probably even run on Java 7 with EAP 6.4 as the particular code above
is not in used with older Infinispan versions.

On 8 January 2016 at 15:01, Vlastimil Elias <velias at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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