[wildfly-dev] wildfly 8 client library now requires Java 7 ?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 02:45:51PM +0200, Ståle W. Pedersen wrote:
>i know. i guess i would like a harder cutoff to jdk7. for tooling, why 
>not require jdk7 when its trying to work with wildfly8?

We could, but other libraries are shared shared with tech where java6 is a must ...which is why I asked
to know if this was actually intended or just an oversight.

/max



>On 13.09.13 13:13, Kabir Khan wrote:
>>WildFly 8 targets JEE7, which must be runnable on JDK 7 (we build WF with JDK7).
>>EAP 6.2 targets JEE6, which must be runnable on JDK 6.
>>On 13 Sep 2013, at 12:04, Ståle W. Pedersen wrote:
>>
>>>sorry for sidetracking this, but can someone explain to me why we still
>>>are using java6? - epecially for wildfly8...!
>>>
>>>if the reason is because the largest userbase still use java6 then i beg
>>>to question if noone are "forcing" them to upgrade they wont. its human
>>>nature. if we as a "cutting edge" company cant force customers to use a
>>>product that was first released in july 2011 then im curious who will...
>>>
>>>sorry for the rant, probably caused by me playing with jdk8 and would
>>>really like to start using it before 2015....
>>>
>>>ståle
>>>
>>>On 13.09.13 12:07, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>>>I bumped into this error while trying out wildfly 8.
>>>>
>>>>An internal error occurred during: "Starting wildfly-8.0.0.Alpha4".
>>>>org/jboss/as/controller/client/helpers/standalone/DeploymentPlanBuilder : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
>>>>
>>>>Seems like the client library we use to control present and past servers now require Java 7.
>>>>
>>>>Is this expected ?
>>>>
>>>>We can go back using older libraries for JBoss AS 7/EAP 6 and would have to mark that you can't actually talk with
>>>>Wildfly 8 libraries without Java 7 - but before doing that I wanted to check if this is expected or not?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>/max
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