[wildfly-dev] WildFly Core Moving to Java 8

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 12 May 2015, at 11:26, Tomaž Cerar wrote:

> Max,
>
> for now controller-client jar compatibility is still set to 1.6 but it
> would be wise to move that to 1.7 if you guys are fine with that.
> see:
> https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/blob/master/controller-client/pom.xml#L44
>
> javac supports setting target as current - 2, so we are now on border 
> and
> might cause us problems in future for JDK9.
>
> If you guys are fine with this, can we move controller-client to 1.7?

We (JBoss Tools/Developer Studio) currently targets Java 7 as minimal 
version
thus we specifically fine with that.

We might even also move to Java 8, but still interested in knowing the 
planned
compatibility limits.

/max

>
>
> --
> tomaz
>
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen 
> <manderse at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 6 May 2015, at 1:45, James R. Perkins wrote:
>>
>>> The time has come. Java 8 is now required on WildFly Core master.
>>
>> Just a question - does this also imply than any client communicating
>> with it via the management API using the client libraries needs to 
>> run
>> Java 8 ?
>>
>> Just wondering what level of backwards compatibility we are looking 
>> at.
>>
>> /max
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