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Bryan Pendleton commented on DERBY-6809:
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Oh, I think we could make a stronger statement than that?
Surely, rewriting the 20-year-old Derby code base to take advantage of the
latest features of the Java language has *TREMENDOUS* potential.
The code could be smaller, faster, clearer, and more reliable.
It could be much easier to add new features.
It could allow us to use auxiliary development tools which are oriented around
the latest Java features.
However, rewriting code is (a) tedious, and, much more importantly, (b) risky.
We have a low appetite for risk, right now.
We are blessed in that we have a rich and varied test bed, with 20 years of
accumulated test suites, which can support us as we refactor and improve the
code.
We are, however, also impoverished in that, being largely a mature and "legacy"
product, we have a small active developer base, particularly relative to the
size and complexity of the code base.
To seriously consider rewriting large parts of the Derby engine, we'd need to
have 10-20 committed, active developers, such as was the case when several
large corporations were actively supporting this project.
Anyway, I have no idea where I'm going with this, just wanted to share my
perspective.
> 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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