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Posted to dev@river.apache.org by Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org> on 2015/04/06 18:04:15 UTC

Java version survey

In thinking about River future direction, and reading Peter's comments 
about relevant Java 9 features, I am curious about which Java runtime 
versions are being used to run River.

Specifically, what is the most recent Java version we could target for 
compiling a new release without negative effects on your River uses?

Thanks,

Patricia

Re: Java version survey

Posted by Greg Trasuk <tr...@stratuscom.com>.
Oracle JDK 7 is at “end of public updates” as of April 1, 2015, according to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html.  IBM JDK 7 is slated for “End of Service” in Sept 2019.  So if there’s anyone interested in running on an IBM JVM, we should probably keep support for JDK7 for a while.  I don’t know how likely it is to see that demand.  It should be possible to create River/Jini clients under WebSphere, but I’ve never tried it.

Cheers,

Greg Trasuk

On Apr 6, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org> wrote:

> In thinking about River future direction, and reading Peter's comments about relevant Java 9 features, I am curious about which Java runtime versions are being used to run River.
> 
> Specifically, what is the most recent Java version we could target for compiling a new release without negative effects on your River uses?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patricia

Re: Java version survey

Posted by Greg Trasuk <tr...@stratuscom.com>.
Oracle JDK 7 is at “end of public updates” as of April 1, 2015, according to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html.  IBM JDK 7 is slated for “End of Service” in Sept 2019.  So if there’s anyone interested in running on an IBM JVM, we should probably keep support for JDK7 for a while.  I don’t know how likely it is to see that demand.  It should be possible to create River/Jini clients under WebSphere, but I’ve never tried it.

Cheers,

Greg Trasuk

On Apr 6, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org> wrote:

> In thinking about River future direction, and reading Peter's comments about relevant Java 9 features, I am curious about which Java runtime versions are being used to run River.
> 
> Specifically, what is the most recent Java version we could target for compiling a new release without negative effects on your River uses?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patricia