Re: Java 7 and 8 features

2015-10-27 Thread Oliver B. Fischer
Hi Vinicius, it is mostly to allow people which are bound (for any reason) to older JDK versions to use our software. There is a plenty number of projects which are not able to use newer JDK versions. I know that this is a controversial topic I think that the majority of us would like to

Java 7 and 8 features

2015-10-27 Thread Vinicius CorrĂȘa de Almeida
I analized some releases and i noticed that not using java 7 features like multi catch and in java 8 do not use lambda expressions and others features, so i came by this email to know why the developers not using this features?

Re: Java 7 and 8 features

2015-10-27 Thread Maxim Solodovnik
We are just moved to java7 and start using new features I personally don't like the idea of moving all code to new java, I move the areas I currently work on On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: > Hi, > > What I see, is that most projects are struggling

Re: Java 7 and 8 features

2015-10-27 Thread Gary Gregory
Hi, What I see, is that most projects are struggling to move to Java 7, Java 8 seems out of range. There are a lot of opinions and both sides of each Java version for and against. At the end of the day, it's about user feedback and committer community involvement. The projects I help on also lack

Re: Java 7 and 8 features

2015-10-27 Thread Ron Wheeler
Switched our internal projects to Java 8 Apache OFBiz is permitting Java 8 source code in the main truck. No thought in either case to rewrite existing code unless their is a bug or enhancement to be done. Ron On 27/10/2015 1:26 PM, Maxim Solodovnik wrote: We are just moved to java7 and

Re: Java 7 and 8 features

2015-10-27 Thread Andrew Gaul
Related to Java versions, Apache jclouds uses modernizer-maven-plugin to encourage use of modern Java APIs such as ArrayList, String.getBytes(Charset), etc.: https://github.com/andrewgaul/modernizer-maven-plugin On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 01:49:41PM -0200, Vinicius CorrĂȘa de Almeida wrote: > I