I vote for Java 8 as well. I already have clients moving to OpenJDK 11 and are looking at all suppliers to upgrade their products.
Any of the underlying libraries (asm?) that have many versions ahead of the current ones in Struts could also be brought up as part of 2.6 Louis On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 9:16 AM Lukasz Lenart <lukaszlen...@apache.org> wrote: > pt., 11 sty 2019 o 21:36 Aleksandr Mashchenko <amashche...@apache.org> > napisał(a): > > > > We discussed it before but it was quite some time ago. How about > > upgrading to jdk8 in 2.6 version? > > > > - Java versions are now released more frequently > > - 2.5.x will still be on jdk7 > > - Currently custom converters must be created to use java 8 date/time > > classes > > - Currently date tag is useless with java 8 date/time classes > > - Some benefits from streams and lambdas, probably :) > > I'm fine with this, my only concern is that we will have to support > Struts 2.5.x a bit longer than I initially thought. It can be a big > problem for some users to switch to Java8, some of them are still > running Struts 2.3.x on Java6. > > > Regards > -- > Łukasz > + 48 606 323 122 http://www.lenart.org.pl/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org > >
