On 10/08/12 20:12, Stephen Allen wrote:
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:
On 10/08/12 18:02, Stephen Allen wrote:
I have dreams of replacing "org.openjena.atlas.lib.Closeable" with
"java.lang.AutoCloseable" (or at least making it a subinterface)...
Juno does a lot of resource close checking so your dream may be reality
already, but in a different place.
I wanted AutoCloseable mostly for the try-with-resources (I'm tired of
dealing with finally blocks and irrational scoping on closeable
objects!)
When I have a moment, I want to fix on the codebase to be warning clean on
Juno (a couple need thinking about). But only one of my machines is
Juno-ised because Juno+Scala needs a special build of ScalaIDE so I got
patient.
Does anyone have any thoughts on a timeline for a switch to Java 7?
Do we wait until Jena 3? (Can't get to JIRA to see if it's mentioned
there)
Generally (= pre ASF), Jena has supported the last two releases of Java.
EOL-isms only became relevant with Java 1.5.
The uptake of Java7 isn't that stunning.
This plan is Oracle's intention at the moment - in the recent past, sticking
to plans hasn't always come about so let's see what actually happens.
Seems hard to make a solid project decision just at the moment
My view is that if people are upgrading their Jena dependency, then
they should also be able to upgrade their Java version as well. Java
7 is pretty strongly compatible with Java 6 and seems to be available
now on all platforms.
Not always so easy in a deployed environment - you may be sharing the
java with other systems and not able to upgrade it yourself.
When I have the choice, I run Java7 but have my Eclipse setup as Java6.
It is easy to control and quick to see when a call to a non-Java6
runtime method is made.
But I agree, perhaps wait and see what Oracle does w/ the EOL.
At Jena 3, we can jump to "latest" everything.
Andy
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/09/java_se6_gets_second_extension/
EOL for Java6 is set to February 2013.
Andy
