[TAVERNA-869] Require Java 8?

• Type: Bug
• Status: Done
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Affects Version/s: parent 1
• Fix Version/s: parent 2
• Component/s: Taverna Maven Parent
• Labels: java
• Assignee: Stian Soiland-Reyes
• Reporter: Stian Soiland-Reyes
• Created: 10/Aug/15 10:24
• Updated: 01/Feb/16 09:28
• Resolved: 01/Feb/16 09:22

Description

Relating to TAVERNA-867 - would it now make sense to overall change Java requirement to Java 8?

Our current compile setting says Java 7 for source compiling and target binary (JAR) compatibility:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-maven-parent/blob/master/pom.xml#L93

I'm not suggesting this because of the doclint option - that could be fixed with a Maven profile if we still wanted to support compiling on Java 7 - but because Java 7 has already reached End of Life, and Java 8 has many nice new features that (with time) could be useful.

Java 8 is now working fine on all 3 major OS-es, right?