Java 7 and 8 features

[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 use
all these features. But we must not forget the people using our software
in their daily work.

BYe,

Oliver

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?

[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
manpower and maintaining more than one version is not I see folks wanting
to do. For myself, I usually want to work on the current version in
master/trunk and move that along. My work$ development is on Java 7 and
slated to switch to Java 8 in 2016 I would guess.

Gary

Post by 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 use all
these features. But we must not forget the people using our software in
their daily work.
BYe,
Oliver

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?

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[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

Post by 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
manpower and maintaining more than one version is not I see folks wanting
to do. For myself, I usually want to work on the current version in
master/trunk and move that along. My work$ development is on Java 7 and
slated to switch to Java 8 in 2016 I would guess.
Gary
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Oliver B. Fischer <

Post by 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 use all
these features. But we must not forget the people using our software in
their daily work.
BYe,
Oliver

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?

--
N Oliver B. Fischer
A Schönhauser Allee 64, 10437 Berlin, Deutschland/Germany
P [phone]
M [phone]
S oliver.b.fischer
X http://xing.to/obf

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[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

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?