9 Feb
2016
9 Feb
'16
4:25 p.m.
+1
2016-02-09 16:13 GMT+01:00 Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <valicac(a)gmail.com>om>:
+1
Thanks,
Caty
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:11 PM, vincent(a)massol.net <vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
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Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project
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
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