Repository: incubator-groovy Updated Branches: refs/heads/GROOVY_2_4_X 6507feeca -> b9a384d54
draft info about Java minimum requirements Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-groovy/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-groovy/commit/b9a384d5 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-groovy/tree/b9a384d5 Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-groovy/diff/b9a384d5 Branch: refs/heads/GROOVY_2_4_X Commit: b9a384d54cf531903da088dec940858dc5c0de11 Parents: 6507fee Author: Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> Authored: Fri May 15 02:54:02 2015 +1000 Committer: Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> Committed: Fri May 15 02:54:59 2015 +1000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- src/spec/doc/core-getting-started.adoc | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-groovy/blob/b9a384d5/src/spec/doc/core-getting-started.adoc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/src/spec/doc/core-getting-started.adoc b/src/spec/doc/core-getting-started.adoc index 1a7a308..97e65a1 100644 --- a/src/spec/doc/core-getting-started.adoc +++ b/src/spec/doc/core-getting-started.adoc @@ -20,6 +20,17 @@ If you plan on using invokedynamic support, link:invokedynamic-support.html[read For those who want to test the very latest versions of Groovy and live on the bleeding edge, you can use our https://oss.jfrog.org/oss-snapshot-local/org/codehaus/groovy[snapshot builds]. As soon as a build succeeds on our continuous integration server a snapshot is deployed to Artifactory's OSS snapshot repository. +=== Prerequisites + +Groovy {groovy-short-version} requires Java 6+ with full support up to Java 8. +There are currently some known issues for some aspects when using Java 9 snapshots. +The `groovy-nio` module requires Java 7+. +Using Groovy's invokeDynamic features require Java 7+ but we recommend Java 8. + +The Groovy CI server is also useful to look at to confirm supported Java versions for different Groovy releases. +The test suite (getting close to 10000 tests) runs for the currently supported streams of Groovy across +all the main versions of Java each stream supports. + == Maven Repository If you wish to embed Groovy in your application, you may just prefer to point to your favourite maven repositories or the https://oss.jfrog.org/oss-release-local/org/codehaus/groovy[JCenter maven repository].
