I got Felix running on the developer preview last autumn following advice on this list: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/felix-users/201309.mbox/%3CCAHL_zcOO23xUaPc_gCFKaw=bvbcecg_hhh2pv7ty5yld-xd...@mail.gmail.com%3E
I don't know if this sort of patching is still required with the most recent releases, but it wasn't hard to apply. As for Java 8 features with BND, I've used Java 8 outside of OSGi applications and it's proving very productive. I doubt I could help in any way with modifying BND but I'd certainly be interested in beta testing an updated version. Of note, I've been able to examine Java 8 bytecode with ASM versions that were designed for Java 7, and it works fine until it hits code using default interface methods. I'm guessing therefore that in the short term, I'll try using Java 8 as the build JDK with "source" and "target" options for "javac" set to Java 7... at least that way I can benefit from the new APIs such as the excellent "java.time" packages. Let me know if I can help out. Thanks, Christopher On 18 March 2014 21:59, Neil Bartlett <[email protected]> wrote: > I would expect Felix to "Just Work" on the Java 8 runtime; after all, J8 is > meant to be backwards compatible. > > Bnd will almost certainly NOT work on classes compiled for Java 8 if they > use the new bytecode features. We have not done any testing with this yet > but I'm sure there will be issues for us to work on. For example, interface > default methods will have a large impact on compatibility calculations and > baselining. > > Regards, > Neil >
