I'm in favor of moving to 1.7 On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote:
> > > On Oct 27, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> > wrote: > > > > While I'd love to start using diamond syntax and try-with-resources in > our own code > > Also 1.7 AutoCloseable interface (used in try-with-resources) is something > I'd like to make a part of our own API. E.g. ResultIterator should be > AutoCloseable. Also have some ideas for transaction management improvements > that can take advantage of that. > > With 1.6 our next best option is using java.io.Closeable. Too bad it > declares IOException in the "close" method, and relevant JDBC classes (e.g. > Connection) do not implement it. So there is an opportunity cost associated > with 1.6 support (as well as with dropping 1.6 support :)) > > Andrus > >
