+1 for this... Java 8 has nice language features as well as excellent runtime JVM improvements DHIS2 community will benefit a lot from this move.
--- Regards, Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA On 25 February 2015 at 08:11, Lars Helge Øverland <larshe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Java 7 reaches end of life on April 2017 and will not receive free updates > beyond that. > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > > Java 8 also comes with a range of new features we would like to take > advantage of. > > https://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/26/everything-about-java-8/ > > As a result we will start using Java 8 from DHIS 2.20. (The next release > is 2.19). This means that to deploy 2.20 you will have to update the Java > SDK on your server to Java 8. Java 8 is already available for Linux, > Windows and Mac OS X. > > regards, > > Lars > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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