[wildfly-dev] Java 8 API Warning

[Steve Ebersole]

That would be great rather than needing another path.
On Apr 17, 2015 8:13 AM, "David M. Lloyd" <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:

> The good news is, there's talk that with Java 9, the JDK will include
> (in some form) APIs for previous versions, so that if you want to target
> an earlier version, you can link against its runtime as well.
>
> On 04/17/2015 08:11 AM, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> > I ran into issues with using Java 8 to run my build but targeting Java 7
> > for most artifacts.  I would highly suggest applying a solution based on
> > AnimalSniffer or supplying the Java 6/7 tools.jar for bootclasspath to
> > javac.  Helps catch these types of issues
> >
> > On Apr 17, 2015 8:04 AM, "Darran Lofthouse" <darran.lofthouse at jboss.com
> > <mailto:darran.lofthouse at jboss.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Quick warning for anyone developing using Java 8 but on projects
> still
> >     dependent on Java 7.
> >
> >     Normally this is fine, as an engineer you make sure you don't use any
> >     new language features or call new APIs and generally it all works.
> >
> >     With Java 8 there is one addition gotcha, Java 8 adds support for
> >     default method implementations on interfaces, to add to this some
> >     pre-existing methods have now been replaced with default
> >     implementations.  The side effect being it is easy to miss that you
> have
> >     a method missing from a class and it will not be picked up till it is
> >     compiled on Java 7.
> >
> >     e.g. On java.util.Iterator the remove method is now default so
> classes
> >     that implement this interface no longer need to implement that method
> >     unless they really are providing an implementation of that method.
> >
> >     Regards,
> >     Darran Lofthouse.
> >
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