I believe IBM is dropping support for Websphere 8.0 sometime this summer...

Peter Hunsberger

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Robert Munteanu <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 08:18 +0200, Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the latest Apache Felix Http Jetty release is embedding latest Jetty
> > version which requires Java 8.
> >
> > The question is now, do we want to update to that version? And if we
> > do
> > so are we fine with using Java as the base for launchpad and then
> > ultimately for our users?
>
> +1 for Java 8.
>
> Note that right now the default Java version for modules is 6, with 10
> bundles ( including commons/compiler, extensions/event and
> installer/providers/file ) requiring Java 7 and 4 bundles requiring
> Java 8 ( validation bundles and fling sample ).
>
> Maybe we should also open up the discussion of moving to Java 7 and
> droppping Java 6 support. Oracle discontinued public support for Java 6
> in Feb 2013. IBM is AFAIK still supporting it for Websphere 8.0, this
> means that we will require Websphere 8.5 for WAR deployments ( which is
> OK I guess... )
>
> Robert
>

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