Hi Marko, I'm using GWT RPC, so it's required gwt-servlet in the WAR file. As it's deployed in an old Jboss server with java6, by using retrolambda, it's possible to use gwt-servlet 2.8 in the server.
Juan On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 at 07:37 Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > With the exception of a few corner-cases, Java 6 source code is also Java > 8 compliant; so the GWT Compiler should be able to process it even though > it assumes Java 8 source code. > > But the question was about JVM requirements: gwt-servlet.jar is compiled > as Java 7 bytecode in 2.8, so it requires a Java 7 JVM on your server; and > similarly gwt-dev and gwt-user require a Java 7 JVM on your developers' and > CI machines (and if you use GIN, because GWT will "internally" compile your > sources to Java 8 bytecode and GIN will try to actually run that code, > you'll need a Java 8 JVM) > Retrolambda could possibly solve the issue of gwt-servlet at least, > possibly also gwt-dev/gwt-user at compile-time. > > > On Friday, November 4, 2016 at 11:25:46 AM UTC+1, Marko wrote: > > How can you use retrolambda for that? Isn't retrolambda transforming the > compiled >>bytecode<<? But GWT transpiled java >>source code<< and not > bytecode... > > Marko > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
