I think we should require a minimum of Java 7 for the next JMeter release. (It currently requires 1.6)
This is because: - Java 7 supports proper certificate generation for the HTTP recorder. It will probably allow some code simplification. - the Javadoc vulnerability CVE-2013-1571 has been fixed since Java 7 update 25 (June 2013). We could drop the patch. - any others? Of course Java 7 is just about EOL, but I've not yet seen any compelling reasons to require a minimum of Java 8. If there are such reasons (other than Java 7 is EOL) please raise them here. A very minor consideration is that Javadoc 7 seems to have been fixed to generate lower-case HTML tags - e.g. <table> rather than <TABLE>. I assume that will remain the case. So there will be a once-off SVN difference when older API docs are replaced with new ones.
