> On Sep 4, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote: > >> cayenne 4 is java 6. Will it go java 7+ or are we staying on 6? I want to >> use the new java.sql.Connection#getSchema. It will probably require updated >> jdbc drivers and dbcp2 as well, so it might be easier to create our own >> adapter#getSchema(Connection). What do you think? > > I've been softly advocating to switch to Java 7 in 4.0 for some time. And I > think by now just enough time has passed to consider Java 6 a distant > memory. > > IIRC Savva either started working or was planning to start working on a DBCP2 > module, so we should be covered on that front as well. > > So maybe we take an (informal?) vote on this and go Java 7?
Just found the last thread on this from a year ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.cayenne.devel/12754 Other than IntelliJ IDEA being behind on OSX, there were no concerns. But even if IDEA is running under Java 6, it can be used to develop Java 7 apps. So I think we should switch. Andrus
