+1 Thanks, Caty
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:11 PM, vinc...@massol.net <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I’d like to propose that we move to Java 8 as the minimal Java version > supported for XWiki 8.0+. > > The rationale is: > > * Java 7 is end of life since April 2015. > * It brings [Default Methods| > https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/defaultmethods.html] > which would make retro compatibility a lot easier for us (it's very hard to > add new features to existing API right now). > * Required for: > ** Infinispan 8 > ** JGroups 4 > ** Jetty 9.3+ seems to require Java 8 (or maybe it's just optimized for > it, http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/ is not crystal clear about what > "Java 8+" means exactly) > > Nice to have > * Lambda Expressions > * Repeating Annotations which would probably allow us to use several times > \@Named instead of \@Component(hints=\{"hint1", "hint2"\}) for example > * New date/time APIs (pretty much what is in Joda Time). We should > refactor our $datetool velocity tool to make the java.time api available > from velocity > * more… > > See http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-878 > > Here’s my +1 and my +1 to start requiring Java 8 for 8.0M2. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > d...@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
