You can create your server parts in your own "plugin" and use Java 7 if you like. I do not see any benefit to use Java 7 for the Eclipse plugin for now. Eclipse 4.3 can still be run with Java 6 and Eclipse 4.4 is only available since one year.
On 09.09.2015 16:38, Denis Washington wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
