RE: River and Java 8

2015-04-30 Thread Bishnu Gautam
We have used Java 8 with River 2.2.2 in our lab, and don’t see any issues yet. RegardsBishnu Bishnu Prasad Gautam > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:01:06 +0200 > From: da...@travellinck.com > To: dev@river.apache.org > Subject: Re: River and Java 8 > > That's great to know

Re: River and Java 8

2015-04-30 Thread Greg Trasuk
On Apr 30, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Peter wrote: > > Agree that there needs to be release candidates and a release, I don't have a > lot of time at present. If someone want's to create a release candidate, > qa-refactor is ready. > > There were some changes made to trunk after the qa-refactor bra

Re: River and Java 8

2015-04-30 Thread Peter
The issues with Java 8 relate to classdep, you won't be affected if you're using alternative build tools such as Maven. The qa-refactor branch has updates to make classdep work with java 8, but I make no guarantee that it will find all dependencies of new Java language features, as these haven'

Re: River and Java 8

2015-04-30 Thread Dawid Loubser
That's great to know. Have not run into any issues yet, I was just under the impression that there were issues. I'm going to give it a go next week, and see if our environment is happy on 8. One possible issue - I wonder what existing data stored in a persistent JavaSpace (with collections, etc -