Github user jburwell commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1370#issuecomment-175523813
@bhaisaab if we make the packaging require Java 1.8, then users will be
automatically upgraded -- defeating the purpose of the deprecation. It seems
like an appropriate first step is to audit all dependencies for Java8 support,
and upgrade all affected dependencies. For example, we need to upgrade to
Spring 4 because (Spring 3 does not support Java
8)[http://spring.io/blog/2013/05/21/spring-framework-4-0-m1-3-2-3-available/].
In my opinion, we should perform the dependency upgrades as part of 4.9.
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