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 >
