See my post from last December about dropping Java 6 support. http://apache-poi.1045710.n5.nabble.com/Java-6-support-td5721373.html
Unfortunately, might be stuck coding to Java 6 for a while. It sure would be nice to use some of the language features from Java 8, as writing your own *correct* iterator class in Java 7- is awful. Too many companies still use Java 7 (my company only upgraded from Java 6 a couple years ago) to leap straight for Java 8. The good (or bad) news is that switching to a newer XML library and upgrading to a newer OOXML schema can probably still be done on Java 6. On Jun 16, 2016 5:59 PM, "Mark Murphy" <jmarkmur...@gmail.com> wrote: Just because this has come up, maybe it is coming close to time to make a major revision. The XML schemas are old, and we are coding to Java 1.6. A major version change would give us the ability to make some breaking changes such as replacing XMLBeans, shifting to Java 8 (or even 9), and shifting to the 4th edition of the schemas. Of course it would be a major effort to do that, and I am not real sure what we would replace XMLBeans with. Maybe JAXB. On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 6:04 AM, <bugzi...@apache.org> wrote: > https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56205 > > Javen O'Neal <one...@apache.org> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Blocks| |58149 > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are the assignee for the bug. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > >
