On 30 Apr 2014, at 13:36, Galder Zamarreño <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Just thinking out loud: what about we start using JDK8+ for all the test code 
> in Infinispan?
> 
> The production code would still have language level 6/7 (whatever is 
> required…).
> 
> This way we start getting ourselves familiar with JDK8 in a safe environment 
> and we reduce some of the boiler plate code currently existing in the tests.
> 
> This would only problematic for anyone consuming our test jars. They’d need 
> move up to JDK8+ along with us.

Another potential problem, as rightly pointed out by Will on IRC, is that it 
would also cause issues for anyone trying to run our testsuite with JDK7 or 
earlier, if anyone is doing such a thing.

> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> p.s. Recently I found https://leanpub.com/whatsnewinjava8/read which provides 
> a great overview on what’s new in JDK8 along with small code samples.
> --
> Galder Zamarreño
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> 
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