I never said 'no' I don't think :)

On Mon 25 Feb 2013 12:17:38 PM CST, Gunnar Morling wrote:
> > 1) JPA 2.1 is part of EE 7 which requires SE 7
>
> But couldn't JPA 2.1 be used in 1.6 SE environments? I guess there'd
> be users doing this. Also if 1.6 is reaching its EOL there are lots of
> people still using it. In BV the situation is similar, it is part of
> the EE 7 API, but the BV spec (and thus HV) requires only 1.6.
>
> >And see the discussion that took place on this list over a year ago
> about O/RM and the Java 6 javac bug
>
> I don't know the details, but could this maybe circumvented by
> compiling with javac 1.7, but using 1.6 as target level for the
> generated class files?
>
> All in all I think requiring only 1.6 is very beneficial for the
> adoption of an API.
>
> --Gunnar
>
>
> 2013/2/25 Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org
> <mailto:st...@hibernate.org>>
>
>     Was not really a conscious decision, but keep in mind that:
>     1) JPA 2.1 is part of EE 7 which requires SE 7
>     2) Oracle Java SE 6 is past any support.
>
>     And see the discussion that took place on this list over a year ago
>     about O/RM and the Java 6 javac bug
>
>     On 02/25/2013 04:07 AM, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > when trying to use
>     >
>     > <dependency>
>     >    <groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
>     >    <artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.1-api</artifactId>
>     >    <version>1.0.0.Draft-10</version>
>     > </dependency>
>     >
>     > in Hibernate Validator I get an UnsupportedClassVersionError.
>     > Seems the API is compiled with JDK 7, which causes problems in
>     the HV build.
>     > Is the use of Java 7 intentional for the JPA API? I don't think
>     it is required, right?
>     >
>     > --Hardy
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