David, Yes, this is the intention for Jetty 9.3.x moving forward. We had been operating under the assumption we would support Java 7 but after looking at what is going on in the SSL areas of the jdk with new features like SNI, HTTP/2 becoming a standard and requiring Java 8, and things like we decided to pull that trigger now. This decision was also somewhat validated in that most all of our professional support clients had themselves already switched to Java 8 because of security issues alone making the decision easier for us. We will continue releasing Jetty 9.2.x iterations should the need arise to keep Java 7 jetty users up to speed, but the adoption of Java 8 over 7 has been dramatically different than 7 over 6...much much faster.
We should have a blog out explaining more of these details sometime soon. cheers, Jesse -- jesse mcconnell [email protected] On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:43 AM, David Kellum <[email protected]> wrote: > With the latest RC1 I'm receiving the following error if I use java 7 > (OpenJDK 1.7.0_79, java.class.version: 51.0): > > Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 > > This doesn't happen with Java 8, nor did it happen using Java 7 with RC0. Is > it the intent now to require Java 8 for jetty 9.3.0, upcoming release? > > Thanks, > David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > jetty-users mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users _______________________________________________ jetty-users mailing list [email protected] To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users
