Re: GWT 2.8.0 is not compatible with java6

2016-11-04 Thread Juan Pablo Gardella
Hi Marko, I'm using GWT RPC, so it's required gwt-servlet in the WAR file. As it's deployed in an old Jboss server with java6, by using retrolambda, it's possible to use gwt-servlet 2.8 in the server. Juan On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 at 07:37 Thomas Broyer wrote: > With the

Re: GWT 2.8.0 is not compatible with java6

2016-11-04 Thread Thomas Broyer
With the exception of a few corner-cases, Java 6 source code is also Java 8 compliant; so the GWT Compiler should be able to process it even though it assumes Java 8 source code. But the question was about JVM requirements: gwt-servlet.jar is compiled as Java 7 bytecode in 2.8, so it requires

Re: GWT 2.8.0 is not compatible with java6

2016-11-04 Thread Marko
How can you use retrolambda for that? Isn't retrolambda transforming the compiled >>bytecode<>source code<< and not bytecode... Marko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: GWT 2.8.0 is not compatible with java6

2016-11-03 Thread Juan Pablo Gardella
Hi all, A workaround to use gwt-2.8.0 in Java 6 is using retrololamda . Here how I configured it (using maven), by adding a profile (here the gist ):

Re: GWT 2.8.0 is not compatible with java6

2016-11-02 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 2:38:38 PM UTC+1, Juan Pablo Gardella wrote: > > Hi all, > > At release notes is not mentioned that now it will support only java7. > Good catch! > I found tbroyer comment here: >

GWT 2.8.0 is not compatible with java6

2016-11-02 Thread Juan Pablo Gardella
Hi all, At release notes is not mentioned that now it will support only java7. I found tbroyer comment here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28879590/jdk-and-jre-minimal-versions-required-for-gwt-compiling-and-running Can be updated the release notes with that?