I agree. It should also enable better participation at both Cocoon and at Apache Forrest. There were also many supporting products that could then be updated. Lets go to 8.
-David Insight 49 wrote: > +1, and I strongly agree with Alfred. > > Cocoon 2.1 is a good stable platform, but doesn't encourage new > participation, partly I suspect, because many people and businesses > run Java 8 or 7 (as you know, you get all kinds of build errors when > trying to build cocoon using those Java versions). > > If we can upgrade the code, classes and supporting jars, I'd recommend > Java version 7 or 8. > > As an example, the very successful Apache Solr search uses Java 8! > > "You will need the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.8 or higher." > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Installing+Solr > > Dan > > > On 10/7/16, Nathaniel, Alfred <alfred.nathan...@six-group.com> wrote: > > +1 but I would go straight to 6, 7, or even 8. > > Past experience is that it is a real nuisance trying to support an ancient > > JDK no developer is actually using anymore. > > > > Cheers, Alfred. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Francesco Chicchiriccò [mailto:ilgro...@apache.org] > > Sent: Freitag, 7. Oktober 2016 11:46 > > To: dev@cocoon.apache.org > > Subject: [DISCUSS] Set minimum JDK version to 1.5 for Cocoon 2.1 > > > > Hi all, > > as recently noticed during the (unfortunately rejected) patch for > > COCOON-2354 [1], it might make sense to upgrade the current minimum JDK > > requirement for Cocoon 2.1 from 1.4 to 1.5, mainly to ease some upgrades > > and help Cocoon 2.1 living in the modern world. > > > > Besides 3rd part library updates, some work could be needed to upgrade > > our Java code, so help would be appreciated. >
