Although Java 1.8 has seen a great adoption rate, on the enterprise side things always move very slowly.
https://twitter.com/Hibernate/status/700998618824753152 Anyway, we shouldn't be stuck with 1.6 just because some legacy systems might not never migrate to a newer version. Other frameworks are also considering this move, like Spring 5.0. In my opinion, Hibernate 6.0 should also use 1.8. Vlad On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Radim Vansa <rva...@redhat.com> wrote: > Btw., when does ORM plan to drop pre-8 support altogether? 6.0? > > Radim > > On 03/01/2016 10:18 PM, Steve Ebersole wrote: > > Correct. hibernate-infinispan can use Java 8. As Sanne says, Infinispan > > itself requires Java 8 so limiting hibernate-infinispan to > 8 really > makes > > no sense, > > > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:03 PM Sanne Grinovero <sa...@hibernate.org> > wrote: > > > >> In general, probably yes. The Infinispan module is a bit special > >> though, as Infinispan itself requires Java8 since Infinispan 8 so > >> noone will be able to use those modules on previous Java versions.. so > >> there's no point in avoiding pre-Java 8 code in there. > >> > >> On 1 March 2016 at 20:55, Gail Badner <gbad...@redhat.com> wrote: > >>> I see a pull request on master for hibernate-infinispan that uses > lambda > >>> expressions. [1] > >>> > >>> There is a separate pull request for 5.0 that does not use them, so > >> there's > >>> no need to backport in this case. [2] > >>> > >>> In general, should we avoid using lambda expressions in master? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Gail > >>> > >>> [1] https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/pull/1269/files > >>> [2] https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/pull/1268/files > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > hibernate-dev mailing list > > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > > > -- > Radim Vansa <rva...@redhat.com> > JBoss Performance Team > > _______________________________________________ > 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
