Robert Munteanu created SLING-4702:
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Summary: Support setting sling.java.version to 8
Key: SLING-4702
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-4702
Project: Sling
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: General
Affects Versions: Parent 22
Reporter: Robert Munteanu
Fix For: Parent 23
We should support setting sling.java.version to 8, to allow modules to take
advantage of the new Java 8 features ( the default setting of 5 should be
discussed separately ).
For now the only issue I see is that the animal-sniffer-maven-plugin does not
supply a signature for checking Java 8 ( see
[MANIMALSNIFFER-44|http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MANIMALSNIFFER-44] ).
We could
# wait for a set of signatures to be deployed
# generate and deploy signatures ourselves
# skip the signature check for Java 8, on the assumption that it's the most
recent version anyway and [Java 9 will be released on 22 Sep
2016|http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2015-May/002172.html]
Since 2 and 3 would complicate the parent pom even more and we don't have a
pressing need to update to Java 8 yet I am going to go with option 1.
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