Sorry, wrong class... XmlElementRef, not XmlElement: /home/sebersole/projects/hibernate/hibernate-orm/hibernate-core/target/generated-src/jaxb/main/org/hibernate/boot/jaxb/hbm/spi/JaxbHbmFilterType.java:57: error: cannot find symbol @XmlElementRef(name = "aliases", namespace = " http://www.hibernate.org/xsd/orm/hbm", type = JAXBElement.class, required = false)
^ symbol: method required() location: @interface XmlElementRef If we decide to stick with support for Java 6, I will try to incorporate this -target option. Thanks! On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Gunnar Morling <gun...@hibernate.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Can you share the exact exception/error you get when using the generated > model with Java 6? The required() attribute already exists as of Java 6 [1]. > > You should be able to make the generated code Java 6 compatible by either > setting the right options for XJC (the JAXB code generator) or in the worst > case by falling back to an older version of XJC. I had a quick look, this > setting looks promising: > > -target (2.0|2.1): Avoid generating code that relies on any JAXB > 2.1|2.2 features. This will allow the generated code to run with JAXB 2.0 > runtime (such as JavaSE 6.) > > That being said, I think it'd be fine to require Java 7 for ORM 5. OGM, > Search and also many other libraries have done that move by now. > > --Gunnar > > [1] > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlElement.html#required() > > > > 2015-04-01 2:04 GMT+02:00 Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org>: > >> So we now have to deal with a multi-jdk build in Hibernate ORM. We need >> Java 8 in order to compile the new hibernate-java8 module. >> >> I wanted to remain compatible with Java 6 for the rest. However, I ran >> into a snag there because of JAXB which we now use (in conjunction with >> StAX) to process XML in ORM. ANyway, the JAX generation creates a model >> that is only compatible with Java 7. I have not yet had time to >> investigate this deeply. But it has to do with a change in the definition >> of javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement and a change in its definition >> between 1.6 and 1.7 to add a new >> attribute javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement#required. >> >> If anyone is familiar with this situation, I'd love to hear some options >> before I spend a lot of time investigating it. >> >> The other option is that we say we are going to drop Java 6 support since >> it has been unsupported now for, what, 3 years? >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev