Anyone knows if we have Java 8 on the CI server? Maybe we should add it to the
3.2 tests.. Another set of red balls to pay attention to :)
A.
On Mar 21, 2014, at 6:52 PM, John Huss <johnth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Andrus Adamchik
> <and...@objectstyle.org>wrote:
>
>> Oh, nice! I missed the announcement.
>>
>>>> [ERROR] * Implementation of {@link #BatchQueryBuilderFactory}, which
>> uses
>>
>> Should be BatchTranslator. This is a recent refactoring.
>>
>>>> [ERROR]
>>>>
>> /Users/john/cayenne/modeler/cayenne-modeler-mac-ext/src/main/java/org/apache/cayenne/modeler/osx/OSXPlatformInitializer.java:[39,21]
>>>> error: package com.apple.eawt does not exist
>>
>> Yeah, this worked with Oracle Java 7, so there's gotta be a way to make it
>> work.
>>
>> I wonder if we use this occasion to stop supporting Java 6 on 3.2. This is
>> such an old news. Anyways just throwing it here to see if anyone has strong
>> objections.
>>
>
> We're still running Java 6 mostly because there just wasn't a compelling
> reason to move to Java 7. So I'd be reluctant to drop support too quickly.
> But Java 8 looks very nice; if dropping support for Java 6 speeds up the
> process of getting to Java 8 then it might be worth it.
>
> Java 8 also includes the new Date & Time API (JSR-310), which should
> probably be supported in Cayenne eventually. It's very similar to Joda
> from what I hear.
>
>
>> On Mar 21, 2014, at 5:38 PM, John Huss <johnth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Still Java 8 just came out I decided to try and compile Cayenne using it
>>> (oracle version). The code compiled without a problem. There were a
>> bunch
>>> of javadoc issues that caused that part to fail so I fixed all those
>> except
>>> this one (since I'm not sure what to change it to):
>>>
>>> [ERROR]
>>>>
>> /Users/john/cayenne/docs/doc/target/sources/org/apache/cayenne/access/translator/batch/SoftDeleteTranslatorFactory.java:28:
>>>> error: reference not found
>>>> [ERROR] * Implementation of {@link #BatchQueryBuilderFactory}, which
>> uses
>>>> 'soft' delete
>>>> [ERROR] ^
>>>
>>>
>>> Then the modeler failed to build on Mac because it couldn't find
>>> com.apple.eawt:
>>>
>>>> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal
>>>> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile
>>>> (default-compile) on project cayenne-modeler-mac-ext: Compilation
>> failure:
>>>> Compilation failure:
>>>> [ERROR]
>>>>
>> /Users/john/cayenne/modeler/cayenne-modeler-mac-ext/src/main/java/org/apache/cayenne/modeler/osx/OSXPlatformInitializer.java:[39,21]
>>>> error: package com.apple.eawt does not exist
>>>
>>> This package (and the classes) DOES exist in rt.jar, so for some reason
>> it
>>> is just not finding it. If I comment out the apple code then the entire
>>> build completes successfully.
>>>
>>>
>>> John
>>
>>
