Oracle released Java 6 in 2006, ended support for Java 6 in 2013 and released Java 7 in 2011 and ended support in 2015. Java 8 was released in 2014.
There are a few language features introduced in Java 7 that would be nice to use in POI. This would mean asking everyone to move off of Java 6, but seems justifiable. I'd really like to use some of the Java 8 features, but usage of Java 7 is too prevalent today. A few Java 7 features that would be nice to use in the POI library: * switch statements on strings * improved generics type inference (diamond operator) * try-with-resources * try/multi-catch --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org
