A quick follow-up to that: I had problems with Java 8 and JPA (more specifically, OpenJPA enhancing of Java-8-targeted class files) - should that work, or is that not part of the "full Java8 support" scope. That would be completely fine, I just would like to know :-)
2014-11-25 22:26 GMT+01:00 Achim Nierbeck <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > yes with Karaf 3.0.2 you'll have full Java8 support. > The systembundle issue is also fixed on it. > So no need to hesitate. > > regards, Achim > > > 2014-11-25 22:23 GMT+01:00 thully <[email protected]>: > >> I guess our main concern right now is risk - we're currently working on a >> minor point release, and our only reason for upgrading there is to have >> full >> Java 8 support. Would it be much riskier to upgrade to 3.0.2? >> >> I recall that when we previously tried upgrading to Karaf 3.0.1, there >> were >> some significant problems - the console was completely broken on Java 8, >> and >> Karaf would always copy all the system bundles to the user's .m2 >> repository >> (we do not want it touching that, nor making extraneous copies of >> bundles). >> As such, we went with Karaf 2.3.5 as these issues did not occur there, and >> our application will at least start on Java 8 (though some Karaf >> functionality is still broken). Does Karaf 3.0.2 fix these problems? >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://karaf.922171.n3.nabble.com/Upgrading-Karaf-2-3-5-to-2-4-0-or-3-0-2-tp4036578p4036679.html >> Sent from the Karaf - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > > > -- > > Apache Member > Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC > OPS4J Pax Web <http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/Pax+Web/> Committer & > Project Lead > blog <http://notizblog.nierbeck.de/> > Co-Author of Apache Karaf Cookbook <http://bit.ly/1ps9rkS> > > Software Architect / Project Manager / Scrum Master > >
