Philippe>Could we consider introducing Java 8 in immediate next version for this feature ?
As you know, I'm all ears for migrating to Java 8. I'm pretty sure this particular issue of "adding behavior to timers without breaking compatibility with previous third-party timers" could be solved with plain Java 7. I just highlight one of the cases where Java 8 shines, so the "backward compatibility dance" is much simpler there. Philippe>What are the risks of moving to Java8(without immediately using all the Philippe>syntactic sugar ) ? Technically speaking, we might want to make a poll on jmeter-users list. For instance, certain platforms might miss Java 8 runtime. I've no idea if there are lots of platforms that miss Java 8 and run JMeter at the same time. Vladimir
