[MARMOTTA-124] Update to Java-7

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.1-incubating
• Assignee: Sebastian Schaffert
• Reporter: Jakob Frank
• Created: 07/Mar/13 13:34
• Updated: 03/Oct/13 13:38
• Resolved: 09/Jul/13 14:16

Description

Java-6 soon reaches EOL and Java-7 adds some new language features, including:
try-with-resources blocks, which operate on implementations of the new java.lang.AutoCloseable interface. These can be used to avoid manual handling for the closing of resources where possible.
improved File IO, using the new java.nio.file.Path interface as the basic object
multi-catch exception blocks, syntactic sugar to avoid having to write multiple catch blocks for the same handling
generics diamond syntax, syntactic sugar to avoid having to write generic types as often

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/language/enhancements.html

Waiting for https://openrdf.atlassian.net/browse/SES-1691

Issue Links

• supercedes: MARMOTTA-155 3-char lang-tags are not accepted