Thanks, we'd certainly be interested in bug reports against bnd. Our issue tracker is on Github: https://github.com/bndtools/bnd/issues
If ASM fails on default methods then I would expect we would too. Bnd does not use ASM but it does some similar things. Regards, Neil On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Christopher BROWN <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
