[Engine-devel] Java 7, revisited again

Allon Mureinik amureini at redhat.com
Tue Apr 9 13:02:52 UTC 2013


After a week of positive reviews in gerrit, and no objections voiced here, patch was merged.

piped catch clauses, here we come.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>
> To: "Kanagaraj" <kmayilsa at redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 10:06:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Java 7, revisited again
> 
> Good point, thanks!
> 
> Fixed up the patch and uploaded a new version.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kanagaraj" <kmayilsa at redhat.com>
> > To: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 7:23:16 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Java 7, revisited again
> > 
> > On 04/02/2013 07:03 PM, Allon Mureinik wrote:
> > > Hola,
> > >
> > > A couple of weeks (months?) ago we discussed upgrading to Java 7.[1]
> > > Generally, there was a positive vibe about moving forward with
> > > technology,
> > > although we noted that this should not be done for common, compat and the
> > > GWT modules,
> > 
> > searchbackend is also used by GWT, this needs to be excluded as well.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Kanagaraj
> > 
> > > under the limitation of the current GWT version we're using.
> > >
> > > Here's an initial suggestion for this upgrade:
> > > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/13519/
> > >
> > > Areas handled and checked:
> > > 1. compilation (including GWT compilation)[2]
> > > 2. animal-sniffer validations for to makes sure that modules that aren't
> > > supposed to use JDK7 features really don't[2]
> > > 3. Running and making sure the UI still works :-)
> > > (checkstyle issues which Laslo pointed out in the original discussion
> > > were
> > > already solved in a different patch merged long ago)
> > >
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Allon and Alissa
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/engine-devel/2012-December/003139.html
> > > [2] This includes, of course, purposely introducing Java 7 syntax and JDK
> > > 7
> > > features to modules that aren't supposed to have them,
> > >      and making sure that the build fails early, as expected, without
> > >      having to add the -Pgwt-admin or -Pgwt-user profiles.
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> > 
> > 
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