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Rick Hillegas commented on DERBY-6809:
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I also am unclear on what is being proposed. There may be some low-hanging
fruit, but I suspect that some significant development effort would be required
to make the Derby engine take advantage of the Java 8 library support for
parallelism. However, I don't see anything which stops users from writing
procedures and functions which take advantage of the Java 8 libraries.
Some work will be required to deprecate support for Java 6, but it should be
minor compared to the work we had to do when we deprecated support for Java 1.4.
I don't think there is anything other than tradition which prevents us from
deprecating support for Java 6 and Java 7 in 10.12. We would want to vote on
this, of course. But our attachment to old versions of Java may be weaker today
than it was a year ago.
> Java 1.8 feature use
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> Key: DERBY-6809
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6809
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Network Server
> Affects Versions: 11.0.0.0
> Reporter: sagar
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> Suggestion ...
> Is it possible to auto modify the existing source code using tools like
> Netbeans, and take advantage of the new features in JDK 1.8 for better
> multiuser performance and better utilization of current day multicore
> processors?
> Plainly put, can we have from 11.0 onwards a version of derby which takes
> advantage of the advancements and new features in java 1.8 ...
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