[wildfly-dev] Moving WildFly 9 to Java 8?

[Scott Marlow]

On 02/10/2015 05:03 PM, Tomaž Cerar wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Scott Marlow <smarlow at redhat.com
> <mailto:smarlow at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     The Java 8 TCK update is for EE 6, not EE 7.  The EE 7 TCK might
>     also pass with Java 8 (we should try that independent of which Java
>     version we require).
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> Aha, this is what i was interested in.
> Any chance you can try with JDK8 against current master?

Doing this now.

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>         Scott, can you confirm this?
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>      >From the EE 7 platform specification:
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>     "
>     EE.9.5
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>     Requirements for All Java EE Profiles
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>     The Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 is the required foundation for
>     any Java EE 7 profile.
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> Yes, but that doesn't say that is the only version that is required.
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> *EE.2.4.1 Container Requirements*
> "This specification requires that containers provide a Java Compatible™
> runtime environment, as defined by the Java Platform, Standard Edition,
> v7 specification (Java SE)."
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> Which means any Java runtime that is compatible with v7 is fine, and as
> far as we know 8 is backward compatible, as it provides all v7 does and
> more.

Being able to run with Java 7 is what I get out of either the profile or 
the container requirements, both seem to state the requirement for V7. 
This sounds like a question for the EE 7 expert group (perhaps they 
didn't really mean that Java 7 could be used to run an EE 7 implementation).

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