Think the question is: we'll we add any feature EE 6 users will start working with? If yes we should stick to it, if not then just target EE 7 and move EE 6 in a maintenance branch.
Romain Manni-Bucau @rmannibucau | Blog | Github | LinkedIn | Tomitriber 2016-03-25 15:44 GMT+01:00 John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org>: > IMHO we should target a major version change if we're going to drop EE 6. > There's still some benefits to having EE 6, but they should start to die > down. > > Maybe DeltaSpike 2.0 is EE 7 +? > > John > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:07 AM Christian Kaltepoth <christ...@kaltepoth.de> > wrote: > >> I also think that we should keep to support Java EE 6 for some time. >> >> But +1 for dropping Java SE 6 support >> >> 2016-03-25 14:00 GMT+01:00 Rudy De Busscher <rdebussc...@gmail.com>: >> >> > All, >> > >> > Most of my clients still work with Java EE 6 (on Java SE 7), so I think >> it >> > is too early to abandon that version. >> > >> > +1 for setting compile version to SE 7. >> > >> > Regards >> > Rudy >> > >> > >> > On 25 March 2016 at 13:48, Gerhard Petracek <gpetra...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> > >> > > hi @ all, >> > > >> > > imo the benefit is too limited. >> > > cdi 1.1 added some nice parts, but mainly for users. >> > > we would just drop the bv-module as well as some parts of the servlet >> > > module. >> > > the jsf-module already contains optional ee7 support (-> we would just >> > get >> > > rid of one small workaround). >> > > for the rest the benefit is minimal as well (or there won't be a change >> > at >> > > all). >> > > ee7 is great for users and therefore we support it already, however, >> > > internally the benefit is too limited and ee6 servers will be around >> the >> > > next few years. >> > > >> > > -> imo v2 should be based on cdi 2.0 (-> ee8). >> > > >> > > regards, >> > > gerhard >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > 2016-03-25 13:29 GMT+01:00 Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com>: >> > > >> > > > Se 8 is surely too early (~1 year I think). +1 to drop ee6 from >> master. >> > > > Le 25 mars 2016 13:27, "Harald Wellmann" <hwellmann...@gmail.com> a >> > > écrit >> > > > : >> > > > >> > > > > Since John raised the question about Java SE 6 support, what about >> > Java >> > > > EE >> > > > > 6? >> > > > > >> > > > > Dropping support for Java EE 6/CDI 1.0 would simplify the code base >> > > > > significantly (a lot more so than moving from Java 1.6 to Java >> 1.7). >> > > > > >> > > > > How about starting a new release line DeltaSpike 2.x targeting Java >> > EE >> > > 7+ >> > > > > and Java SE 8+, with continued support for Java EE 6 on the 1.x >> > branch >> > > > for >> > > > > as long as people are willing to work on backward compatibility? >> > > > > >> > > > > Regards, >> > > > > Harald >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Christian Kaltepoth >> Blog: http://blog.kaltepoth.de/ >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/chkal >> GitHub: https://github.com/chkal >>
