Hi, Simone,

2013/3/31 Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org>

> Hi Mikhail,
>
> time ago we already discussed it and we found the agreement that the
> default supported JDK is Java5, since Guice targets it and users of
> JDK5 platform would be still interested on adopting our libraries; if,
> for some reasons, a component requires a newer JDK version, it is
> enough the ${javac.src.version} and ${javac.target.version} properties
> are overridden in its own pom.
>
> That's what i had in mind - bump version only in specific components that
require newer version and document it. No global target version.


> -1 to have a global target JDK, -1 on bumping directly to newer JDKs:
> while it is true that old JDKs reached the EOL, customers haven't
> abandoned that platforms, immagine some of us still have customers
> requiring JDK1.4 - we have to serve the industry and, for a wider
> adoption, we have to genuinely take care to our user as well that we
> do to our code.
>
> For the ForkJoinPoo: if codehaus' jsr166y backports to JDK6 is really
> Java6 compatible, it would be preferred.
>
> HTH,
> -Simo
>
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> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Mikhail Mazursky
> <mikhail.mazur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all@dev.
> >
> > I found out that some parts of our code use methods, introduced in Java
> 6:
> > - Collections.asLifoQueue() in DefaultStager;
> > - Collections.newSetFromMap() in WarmUper;
> > - ForkJoinPool from jsr166y in WarmUper requires Java 6 too - see [1].
> > - maybe more.
> >
> > But in pom.xml we target Java 5.
> >
> > I think we should decide what version we target and fix our code and/or
> our
> > pom.xml's. We may want to enforce this by using
> animal-sniffer-maven-plugin
> > [2].
> >
> > IMHO warmup project can target Java 7 if it requires ForkJoinPool. Other
> > parts may target Java 6 if it is usefull. Even JDK 6 reached it's "end of
> > life" a month ago so i don't see much value in supporting Java 5.
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > [1]: http://g.oswego.edu/dl/concurrency-interest/
> > [2]: http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer-maven-plugin/
>

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