It gets my vote (if I have a vote). Java 7 try with resources certainly helped tighten up on some of my resource leaks.
NIO has been a benefit too. When replying to a post like this, is it the done thing to reply to the list in general or should I be replying just to the original poster? — Michael Ellis On 5 Dec 2014, at 13:54, Tobias Pietzsch <pietz...@mpi-cbg.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > what is everyones opinion on moving the IJ2/Fiji stack to a new version of > Java, i.e., Java 7. > Java 7 has been around for more than 3 years now. The end-of-life final > public release of Java 6 was more than 1.5 years ago. > > Benefits I see are the following: > > * We could use the “new" Java 7 libraries. For example the Fork/Join > framework would come handy in defining multi-threading interfaces in > scijava-common (to be used in imagej-ops for example). Or the NIO2 stuff > (java.nio.file) > > * We would benefit from improvements of type inference for generics in the > compiler. No more jumping through hoops to fix “errors” in code that should > compile with Java 6 but doesn’t. (Plus we could use the diamond operator to > shorten generics instantiations.) > > * We could use third-party libraries that only support Java 7. For example > I’m using Jetty in a project that can therefore not be part of Fiji > currently. (This mail was more or less triggered by me looking into > http://ojalgo.org who maybe went a bit over the top and already abandoned > Java 7 for Java 8). I think it is only a matter of time until we will have a > problem with third-party libraries that we already use abandoning Java 6. > > > I do not have a clear picture of what the downsides would be. Johannes always > said that people on old macs are tied to an old java version and that we do > not want to leave those users behind. It would be interesting to know how > many people that actually would impact. > > > What do you think? > > best regards, > Tobias > > _______________________________________________ > ImageJ-devel mailing list > ImageJ-devel@imagej.net > http://imagej.net/mailman/listinfo/imagej-devel _______________________________________________ ImageJ-devel mailing list ImageJ-devel@imagej.net http://imagej.net/mailman/listinfo/imagej-devel
