Looks good to me. Even my (rather conservative) employer already started migrating some projects to Java 8. So I guess it should be ok.
@Robbie: Are there any similar plans for the Qpid JMS client? Jakub On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Rob Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > about 2 years ago we discussed the roadmap for ending support for Java 6 > [1]. In April it will be one year since Oracle ceased public support for > Java 7. Towards the end of this year (hopefully) Java 9 will be released. > As such I think it is time for us to start discussing how long we will > continue to support Java 7 as a platform for new feature releases of the > Java Broker and the AMQP 0-x client. > > Our current Java roadmap[2] has us scheduled for a Q1 release of Qpid v6.1 > and a Q3 release of Qpid v7 (with a v7.1 release to follow some time after > that). What I would like to propose is that v6.1 will be the last feature > release where we commit to supporting Java 7 for the Broker. That for Qpid > v7 we commit to supporting Java 7 and 8 as platforms for the client - but > that the Broker will support only Java 8. Further I propose that Qpid v8 > (release data TBD, but sometime in 2017) will support Java 8 and Java 9 > (presuming it has been released) but we will no longer support Java 7 as a > platform for the client. > > To aid users who cannot upgrade from Java 7 we will commit to producing bug > fix releases on the Qpid v6.1.x line for at least one further year (and > probably longer) after the initial v6.1 release. > > In terms of drivers for ending Java 7 support... we have already seen some > of our key dependencies (such as Jetty) drop support for Java 7. We also > are running into issues where the age the Java 7 platform makes it hard to > support modern security standards, or it simply does not support APIs > necessary for correct implementations of AMQP 1.0 semantics (e.g. Java 7 > does not provide server name identification support for TLS on the server > side - which AMQP 1.0 requires to identify desired virtual hosts). From > experience, it will also become overly burdensome to start trying to > support three different Java versions once Java 9 is released. > > Thoughts? > > Rob > > [1] > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/qpid-users/201404.mbox/%3CCACsaS94O8g3-+895GEKE-b0sP128mMM2hsg4mjNJHr28W=b...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > > [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/qpid/Java+Roadmap >
