Hi All, For my two cents, the most substantial change I've observed in JDK 8 is:
- lambda (or closures, or whatever they call them these days) - getting rid of permgen which is something I really hate, we probably all met the java.lang.OutOfMemoryError - bulk ops on java collections using lambda functions which avoids ugly "for" loops - vm is much smaller I think migration would be a pain though! Taher Alkhateeb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Gray" <scott.g...@hotwaxmedia.com> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org Sent: Saturday, December 7, 2013 5:30:42 PM Subject: Re: Discussion: Moving to Java 7 > Then much more changes can be envisionned... Such as? Regards Scott On 7/12/2013, at 1:39 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > I think it's safe to move over to Java 7 without any changes. > I have run OFBiz locally - dev mode - for a long time using Java 7, until > recently where I moved back to Java 6 for other reasons. > What will be quite interesting is moving to Java 8, which IMO, we should > consider ASAP as it will be available. Then much more changes can be > envisionned... > > Jacques > > On Saturday, December 07, 2013 1:33 PM Adrian Crum > <adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com> wrote: >> Support for Java 6 is fading: >> >> http://java.com/en/download/faq/java_6.xml >> >> We need to discuss moving OFBiz over to Java 7. >> >> I have been building and running OFBiz R13 on Oracle Java 7 for over a >> month, and there were some minor compilation problems, but they were >> easy to fix. >> >> What do you think?