Avoid it!?! Why would you want to avoid it? Pre java 8 sucks. No Lambdas for a start. Feel free to Google all the advantages of Java 8.
I say, reduce your tech debt, upgrade to the latest. :-) On Tuesday, 8 June 2021 at 9:03:59 pm UTC+10 HATIM SETTI wrote: > Hi, > > thank you guys for your responses. > > So there is no breaking changes from 2.7 to 2.9. the main reason that we > want to upgrade is for securities reasons, so I suggest there is no need to > upgrade to 2.9 ?! not to mention that we will have to migrate to java 8 or > latest version. so a lot of work is anticipated. > > do you guys have other arguments that I can provide to avoid this whole > migration ? > > Thank you . > > Le jeudi 3 juin 2021 à 19:19:58 UTC+1, David Nouls a écrit : > >> Hi, >> >> Migration is nearly invisible but if you depend on 3rd party gwt libs >> then there is always risk that they are no longer supported. >> >> I ran into some backward compatibility issue with generics support with >> GWT2.9. It compiled on 2.8 but fails with 2.9. I did not find the time to >> create a bug report and code sample to demonstrate. >> >> Groeten, >> David >> On 3 Jun 2021, 18:42 +0200, HATIM SETTI <[email protected]>, wrote: >> >> Hi team, >> >> I'm working on an existing project with (gwt 2.7 , maven Java >> 6,spring..), and we want to upgrade to 2,8 or 2.9 atest version. >> >> And I want to know the impact of that, will we need to change a lot of >> code, what the steps shoud I follow ? >> >> Also what the gain of upgrading to the latest version ? there is any >> improvement in term of security ? >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "GWT Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit/232cba3f-f910-432f-bfba-382e8d9eab9dn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit/232cba3f-f910-432f-bfba-382e8d9eab9dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit/4c84c576-60e0-4673-a39b-bfaa96bf77efn%40googlegroups.com.
