[jira] [Commented] (TAVERNA-869) Require Java 8?

["Stian Soiland-Reyes (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Stian Soiland-Reyes commented on TAVERNA-869:
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OK, so let's go with Java 8 then. I have updated taverna-parent's pom.xml for 2-incubating-SNAPSHOT.



> Require Java 8?
> ---------------
>
>                 Key: TAVERNA-869
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAVERNA-869
>             Project: Apache Taverna
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Taverna Maven Parent
>    Affects Versions: parent 1
>            Reporter: Stian Soiland-Reyes
>            Assignee: Stian Soiland-Reyes
>              Labels: java
>             Fix For: parent 2
>
>
> Relating to TAVERNA-867 - would it now make sense to overall change Java requirement to Java 8? 
> Our current compile setting says Java 7 for source compiling and target binary (JAR) compatibility:
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-maven-parent/blob/master/pom.xml#L93
> I'm not suggesting this because of the doclint option - that could be fixed with a Maven profile if we still wanted to support compiling on Java 7 - but because Java 7 has already reached End of Life, and Java 8 has many nice new features that (with time) could be useful.
> Java 8 is now working fine on all 3 major OS-es, right? 



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