Vincent, can you state which minimum MacOSX, Ubuntu, and Windows version this means? I know 10.6 is out and I've been challenged for this since XWiki moved to Java7 already but that's past (my solution was, then, to not upgrade my wiki). It'd be interesting to know the coming limitations. paul
> vinc...@massol.net <mailto:vinc...@massol.net> > 9 February 2016 at 16:11 > Hi devs, > > I’d like to propose that we move to Java 8 as the minimal Java version > supported for XWiki 8.0+. > > The rationale is: > > * Java 7 is end of life since April 2015. > * It brings [Default > Methods|https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/defaultmethods.html] > which would make retro compatibility a lot easier for us (it's very > hard to add new features to existing API right now). > * Required for: > ** Infinispan 8 > ** JGroups 4 > ** Jetty 9.3+ seems to require Java 8 (or maybe it's just optimized > for it, http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/ is not crystal clear about > what "Java 8+" means exactly) > > Nice to have > * Lambda Expressions > * Repeating Annotations which would probably allow us to use several > times \@Named instead of \@Component(hints=\{"hint1", "hint2"\}) for > example > * New date/time APIs (pretty much what is in Joda Time). We should > refactor our $datetool velocity tool to make the java.time api > available from velocity > * more… > > See http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-878 > > Here’s my +1 and my +1 to start requiring Java 8 for 8.0M2. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > d...@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
