Why does it require java 6?


On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Igor Vaynberg <[email protected]>wrote:

> +1 for including it in rc6. we are tweaking poms anyways.
>
> the release of this is pending on jboss guys getting weld and seam
> artifacts into central, something im working with them on.
>
> -igor
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Martijn Dashorst
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Wicket Weld is a really nice to have for wicket 1.5 and would increase
> > the importance of our release pretty considerably. The issue with
> > wicket-weld is that it requires java 6, and it is late in the release
> > game for 1.5 final.
> >
> > We have experience with building mixed java releases (see our 1.3
> > history), though the build process was not pretty.
> >
> > In order to enable wicket-weld we need to do the following IMO:
> >  - create java5 and java6 modules in trunk, each configured with the
> > correct java version
> >  - commit wicket-weld as a submodule for the java 6 module
> >  - move wicket-examples to java 6 module
> >  - move all other wicket modules to the java 5 module
> >  - fix the wicket parent pom to have a java 5 profile and a java 6
> profile
> >  - fix the build script to run different maven setups utilizing a java
> > 5 home directory and a java 6 home directory
> >  - fix the build script to run java 5 compilation first and then only
> > java 6 for packaging (without clean) this will keep the java 5
> > compiled classes and re-package them during the java 6 run
> >
> > This is some work, and as I said, we are late in the release game. If
> > 1.5 final was this week I wouldn't propose to do this, but perhaps do
> > it in 1.5.1 or 1.5.2. However, since 1.5-rc6 is still not complete we
> > might do this now. I'm open to suggestions on whether to include
> > wicket-weld or not.
> >
> > Martijn
> >
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