On 01/06/2015 14:14, sebb wrote:
I think we should require a minimum of Java 7 for the next JMeter release.
Agree.
(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?
* "fix" this known issue on JMeter:
"With Java 1.6 and Gnome 3 on Linux systems, the JMeter menu may
not work correctly (shift between mouse's click and the menu). This is a
known Java bug (see Bug 54477). A workaround is to use a Java 7 runtime
(OpenJDK or Oracle JDK). "
Milamber
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.
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