Hi, I looked at the changes in the upcoming version 15 of IntelliJ today and came across the following snippet [1]:
"OS X users may notice that we don't offer the .dmg installer that requires Java 6 anymore. Now our .dmg installer comes with a patched JDK 8. It means two things: a) you don't need to have Java 6 installed to run the IDE; b) it is able to work with Java 6 or higher." This means that IntelliJ 15 will remove the last reason for us to stay on Java 6 for Saros. As most Eclipse packages already require Java 7 since version 4.4 [2], it might be finally the time to make use of Java 7 and its language and standard library improvements as soon as IntelliJ 15 is released (or even before then, given that the IntelliJ plugin has no stable release yet). I was thinking about this right now specifically because I am currently implementing our filesystem interfaces on top of the Java standard library for the Saros server. Implementing these with the help of the new Java 7 filesystem interfaces would be drastically simpler and less error prone. For instance, the IPath implementation could simply be a thin wrapper above java.nio.Path [3]. java.nio.Files [4] is equally useful. So If we could move to Java 7 very soon, I would be extremely happy. Regards, Denis [1] http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/06/intellij-idea-15-eap-is-open/ , section "OS X and Java Version" [2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Installation [3] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/Path.html [4] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/Files.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ DPP-Devel mailing list DPP-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dpp-devel
