The Java 8 as well as an Arquillian tomcat first pass are nearly done in the USERGRID-273 branch. Once that's stable. It'll go back into the 2.0 branch. On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 9:15 PM Ed Anuff <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 > > heck, I'd be happy with UG passing all tests on Java 8 > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Nate McCall <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Cassandra has moved to Java 8 only recently fwiw. I'm fine with that for > > UG. > > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Rod Simpson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Rod Simpson > > > T @rockerston > > > W rodsimpson.com > > > > > > On February 18, 2015 at 1:16:19 PM, Dave ([email protected]) wrote: > > > > > > In the two-dot-o branch, the new persistence engine uses lots of > > functional > > > / reactive programming patterns via RxJava. These patterns are a > natural > > > fit for Usergrid, but RxJava forces us to use a lot of ugly boiler > plate > > > code and it forces new developers to have to go through the non-trivial > > > RxJava learning curve. > > > > > > > > > Moving forward I propose that we should write code using the same > > patterns > > > that we use with RxJava, but with Java 8 instead. Java 8 allows us to > > most > > > of the same things that RxJava does, but with much nicer syntax -- and > > it's > > > going to be much better supported, documented and well-known than > RxJava > > > will ever be. > > > > > > > > > What do others thing about requiring Java 8 for Usergrid 2.0? > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > - Dave > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ----------------- > > Nate McCall > > Austin, TX > > @zznate > > > > Co-Founder & Sr. Technical Consultant > > Apache Cassandra Consulting > > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > >
