Re: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8

2017-01-13 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 1/11/2017 9:17 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: Curious: Is there something relative to RACF keyrings or TLS 1.2 in Tomcat8 / SDK8 that can't be done with Tomcat 7 and z/OS SDK 7? Tomcat 7 does not properly handle the "safkeyring:///" protocol specification even when java.protocol.handler.pkgs

Re: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8

2017-01-11 Thread David Crayford
On 12/01/2017 1:17 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: Jetty has always been nice in terms of how you can customize and embed it. That's right. Jetty has a pluggable architecture which makes it perfect for embedding. You can also strip it back to the bare bones. Don't want servlet sessions? Strip out the

Re: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8

2017-01-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
Hi Ed, Jetty has always been nice in terms of how you can customize and embed it. That's its niche (with system integrators), whereas Tomcat is more recognized as the de-facto reference open source Servlet container for web app developers. Prior to IBM's acquisition of JZOS, we used to include

Re: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8

2017-01-11 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 12/21/2016 7:18 AM, David Crayford wrote: We're currently developing a product with a web UI that uses a Java application server running on z/OS, either Tomcat or Jetty. We use Tomcat 8.5.6 on top of Java 8, which gives us RACF keyring and TLS 1.2 support. Is Jetty a good alternative to

Re: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8

2017-01-10 Thread David Crayford
Kirk, We currently use your Tomcat 7 port for dev but we're going to move to Jetty for technical reasons. Java 8 gives us better options WRT libraries. We can ditch Joda for the JRE datatime package and use modern techniques like lamdas. Not to mention the other reasons others have posted

Re: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8

2017-01-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
David, FYI, we recently updated our free z/OS port / packaging / enhancements to Apache Tomcat to include Tomcat 8, which requires Java 7. https://dovetail.com/products/tomcat.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:18 AM, David Crayford

Re: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8

2016-12-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
Going in next month along with z/OS 2.2. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 9:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8 We're currently

Re: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8

2016-12-21 Thread Nims,Alva John (Al)
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 10:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8 Java 8 (highest version) is more or less pushed here because of security leaks in lower

Re: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8

2016-12-21 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM
, or not use Java at all. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: 21 December, 2016 16:18 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8 We're currently developing a product

Re: [SURVEY] Who's using Java 8

2016-12-21 Thread Allan Staller
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[SURVEY] Who's using Java 8

2016-12-21 Thread David Crayford
We're currently developing a product with a web UI that uses a Java application server running on z/OS, either Tomcat or Jetty. We decided to use Java 7 because most sites probably have that installed already and having a dependency on Java 8 might be POC obstacle for some sites. But Java 8