Well, by the time 5.0 comes out, the odds are that Java 7 will be EOL (April 2015)! ;-)
Gary On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:45 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 September 2014 19:47, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > I do like programming with try-with-resources, feels safer, warm and > fuzzy. > > However, there are other ways to achieve resource cleanup which don't > require 1.7 > Findbugs and IDEs are quite good at reporting where resources have not > been closed. > > So I would not regard that as a reason to require 1.7 > > > Gary > > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 18:17 +0100, sebb wrote: > >> > On 25 September 2014 10:17, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > > On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 17:45 -0400, Todd W Lainhart wrote: > >> > > > >> > > ... > >> > > > >> > >> Also I'm recalling minimum JVM versions for HttpComponents being > >> discussed > >> > >> and polled. Was it 1.6 or 1.7 that was decided upon for subsequent > >> > >> releases (e.g. 4.4)? Maybe the poll was for Android only? > >> > >> > >> > > > >> > > HC 4.4 requires 1.6. The majority of respondents were in favor of > >> > > upgrading straight to 1.7, so 5.0 might be the right time to > upgrade to > >> > > 1.7. > >> > > >> > There is no point requiring 1.7 for the sake of it. > >> > That will exclude users who cannot upgrade from 1.6 > >> > > >> > However, if there are new features in 1.7 that make a significant > >> > difference to the HC code, then it is worth considering. > >> > > >> > I have yet to see any discussion of the new features in 1.7 which are > >> > a "must-have" as far as HC is concerned. > >> > > >> > >> I agree. ConcurrentLinkedDeque [1] may be required for lock-less > >> (concurrent) connection pools [2]. There might still be ways to use > >> ConcurrentLinkedQueue instead. > >> > >> Oleg > >> > >> [1] > >> > >> > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ConcurrentLinkedDeque.html > >> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCORE-390 > >> > >> > > Oleg > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [email protected] > >> > > > >> > > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] > > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
