Fair enough, I had a feeling that would be the answer but thought it was worth asking ;-)
On 20/07/2016 08:30, "Florian Müller" <[email protected]> wrote: I have to agree. We here are just phasing out Java 6. We would need Java 7 support probably for a few more years. - Florian > On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Gavin Cornwell wrote: >> If we’re contemplating a move from Java 6 why not move straight to 8? > > What new features do we get if we move to 8 rather than 7? How many > users would we loose because their locked-down "enterprise" work > environments are stuck with 7? (Or worse, earlier...) > > (IIRC Alfresco 4.x is supported on Java 7, only 5.x bumped it to Java > 8, so we'd potentially loose some Alfresco users. Not sure about other > common platforms that OpenCMIS gets used with, but based on my work on > Tika and POI there's a surprising number of folks out there stuck on > old JRE versions) > > Nick
