[wildfly-dev] WildFly Core Moving to Java 8

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 12 May 2015, at 16:31, Brian Stansberry wrote:

> There's no intent that this change affects the wire protocols or the
> message formats. If you experience issues, please raise a bug report.

Thanks - will do ;)

/max

> On 5/12/15 7:33 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>> 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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>>
>> /max
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