Baseline on Java 8? Hmm... Well thanks for tempting me :) What do you mean by "be able to experiment with significant API improvements"?
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sa...@hibernate.org> wrote: > I wouldn't disagree on requiring Java 7. > I probably wouldn't disagree with Java 8 either, after all we're not > removing older versions of Hibernate from any download location and > we'll still support and maintain some older versions. It would > actually be nice to have the latest ORM version to be able to > experiment with significant API improvements. > > FYI Hibernate Search is requiring Java 7 already, and our CI servers > are already testing our projects with JDK9 as well. > > That said, Java 6 is still being supported by some vendors. Not by > Oracle, but Red Hat and SAP will support it for much longer. > > -- Sanne > > On 1 April 2015 at 01:04, Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> wrote: > > 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
