On 17 Jan 2013, at 09:37, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:
> FYI > > Java 6 end-of-life is approaching. > > End of public updates is next month (Feb 2013). > End of public updates for Java7 is currently July 2014. > Java8 is scheduled for Sept 2013 (and feature complete this month) > > Jena 2.10 is the next release. > > Thoughts on migration? We obviously hope people deploy jena on vendor supported java stacks, but I don't see java 6 use falling rapidly. So are there other reasons to move? There are some reasonable useful language changes, but nothing that compelling. For jena users I imagine try with resources support would be great, and that (annoyingly) would mean a change to 7 on our side (AutoCloseable is jdk 7+). Besides that the new nio stuff, particularly file paths, is great but not especially relevant to jena. Java 8, otoh, is more significant. Lambdas might provide an opportunity to rethink the API. As I understand it some lambda support might not require moving to java 8 -- simply accept single method interfaces and functions will work -- but there's plenty of JDK changes that we might like to use. Damian
