Hi all,
A workaround to use gwt-2.8.0 in Java 6 is using retrololamda
<https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda>. Here how I configured it (using
maven), by adding a profile (here the gist
<https://gist.github.com/gardellajuanpablo/727d3b53e4e5a92e4068b272aa8b4fed#file-gwt28-usingjava6-xml-L1>
):
<profile>
<id>production</id>
<activation>
<property>
<name>production</name>
</property>
</activation>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-servlet</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<properties>
<resources-environment-folder>${basedir}/src/env/production</
resources-environment-folder>
</properties>
<build>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>process-classes</phase>
<goals>
<goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<includeArtifactIds>gwt-servlet</includeArtifactIds>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/classes</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!-- Convert Java 8 to Java 6 -->
<plugin>
<groupId>net.orfjackal.retrolambda</groupId>
<artifactId>retrolambda-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>process-classes</phase>
<goals>
<goal>process-main</goal>
<goal>process-test</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<defaultMethods>true</defaultMethods>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</build>
</profile>
On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 at 10:53 Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 2:38:38 PM UTC+1, Juan Pablo Gardella
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> At release notes is not mentioned that now it will support only java7.
>
>
> Good catch!
>
>
> I found tbroyer comment here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28879590/jdk-and-jre-minimal-versions-required-for-gwt-compiling-and-running
>
> Can be updated the release notes with that?
> http://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html#Release_Notes_2_8_0
>
> Let me know, I can create the pull request.
>
>
> Yes please, go ahead.
>
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