Post Christmas Bump…. 


On 17 Dec 2011, at 12:19, Sam Hamilton wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I would like to bring up for discussion how we plan to handle the EOL of Java 
> SE 6 in July 2012 [1]? 
> 
> So far my local testing shows that you can't build OFBiz using JDK 7 and with 
> only a few months left before we have to all have upgrade (unless you fancy 
> nasty security holes in your deployment  - Ubuntu are pulling their JDK 6 
> packages very soon [2] ) I think we need some sort of plan. 
> 
> I have a couple of questions that perhaps someone might be able to answer:
> a) Does the changes to support Java 7 need back porting to the older releases 
> of OFBiz as bug fixes?
> b) Can we setup buildbot with both Java 6 & 7 so that a branch could be 
> established to get the bug fixes started? 
> 
> I am sure there is a lot more to think about! 
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
> [1] - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
> [2] - 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-December/001528.html

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