Am 12. September 2016 17:09:31 MESZ, schrieb Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com>: >Felix>So it's still nearly one third of our potential users, that are >using >java 7. That seems to be a good argument to support it, don't you >think? > >Felix, I'm afraid you are misreading the data Antonio provides.
I have to admit, I did that slightly on purpose. My main point is really, that I would like 3.1 be a bug fixing release mainly. I would be in favour of releasing more often and I have no problem to update to java 8 after 3.1. > >Java upgrade for production systems is conservative since not all the >vendors/applications do _support_ Java 8. >For instance, if you have a Weblogic 9 application server, then you >cannot >use Java 6 (!) just because: >1) It won't run >2) Vendor (Oracle) does not support that configuration, so if you have >any >issues you would have to resolve them on your own > >Basically the same thing applies to other software systems, so you >cannot >"just use newer java at random". >You must ensure vendor does support that newer java for the particular >product version. > >Well, let's come back to JMeter: >1) Nothing stops from using JMeter+Java8 to load test Weblogic >9+Java1.5 >application. Even if someone is stuck with Java 1.5+Weblogic 9 in >production, it does not prevent from using Java 8 for JMeter. >2) Most of Java 7 installations have security issues, and I think it is >fair to say that almost noone is paying money for the java that is used >for >JMeter. Once again, as we switch to "Java 8 only", we'll eliminate >attack >vector from our users' machines (they'll no longer would require to >have >java 7 installed). They are not required to have java 7 installed. >3) I think most of the development / testing is performed via Java 8, >so it >is even hard to predict if JMeter would work at all with Java 7. Did you see any problems using java 8? > >To sum up "more than a half of production systems run on top of Java >8", >and JMeter is lagging behind. >That is weird taking into the account that JMeter is a standalone tool. > >Felix>It would take no effort, but that was not the point. > >As far as I can see, "java 8 only" requires documentation/wiki update, >and >an update to build script, so it creates source 1.8, target 1.8 >bytecode. I consider that as rather no effort, even if it has to be done, of course. Let's get the last bugs closed on 3.1 and target a java 8 release soon after. Felix > >Vladimir
