By customers I don't mean my companies customers, I mean users of cxf 2.7 On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Jason Pell <[email protected]> wrote:
> From a purely selfish point of view, I hope that 2.7 end of life is > announced well in advance, as a lot of customers will have to migrate to > 3.x. > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Sergey Beryozkin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> We've had a brief chat with Dan earlier about the possibility of >> introducing a Java 8 trunk after it was announced JAX-RS 2.1 API would be >> Java 8 based. >> >> I'd like to justify here why IMHO this would be a very good thing for CXF: >> >> - Java 8 is recognized to have a lot of new language features that can >> help with significantly enhancing the capabilities of a given project. >> Functional programming, security related enhancements, etc, etc. IMHO >> opening a Java 8 trunk would help us 're-invigorate' the CXF source (all >> frontends) with respect to the asynchronous, security-related and other >> processing and will likely lead to the introduction of the new features we >> can not even think of now. It will also excite the CXF community at large. >> >> - JAX-RS 2.1 requires Java8. JAX-RS 2.1 started its work in December 2014 >> and I do expect Jersey and RestEasy teams publishing the snapshots more or >> less in sync with the ongoing API updates. Many users do want to play with >> the latest and greatest API asap. Besides, implementing iteratively would >> make it easier for us to deal with the other commitments we may have. >> >> We have 3.1.0 and 3.0.x but there are no major differences between them >> from a feature point of view except that 3.1.0 is Java 7 based (with some >> related improvements). >> >> So I believe it would be good to have a Java 8 trunk. The major question >> is when. But I hope it can be opened by the end of this year or possibly >> even a bit earlier. >> >> IMHO the following may make sense: >> >> Open it in the end of life for 2.7.x and either 3.1.0 or 3.1.1 releases. >> >> 2.7.x is nearly 2.7.15 now and I guess there will be 3 or so 2.7.x >> releases afterwards max. >> >> If 2.7.x can be 'closed' and '3.1.0' released at the same time then IMHO >> it can just make sense to branch 3.1.x at that point and open a Java 8 CXF >> 4.0 trunk. Otherwise do it after 2.7.x is closed and 3.1.1 is released. >> >> Thoughts are welcome >> Thanks, Sergey >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
