9:02 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs(a)redhat.com>
To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs(a)redhat.com>
Cc: devel(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 1:58:58 AM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Moving forward our frontend stack
Does this mean we can use the diamond operator at common after the patch is
merged?
For example:
HashSet<String> names = new HashSet<>();
Insead of
HashSet<String> names = new HashSet<String>();
yes, we can! :)
Yair
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Martin Betak" <mbetak(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: devel(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 6:38:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Moving forward our frontend stack
>
> Hey Martin!
>
> I've just reviewed your patch, looks good overall.
>
> Here are my thoughts:
>
> * Jenkins CI fails on patch due to missing dependencies,
> we need to provide following new dependencies in order
> to proceed with the upgrade:
>
> org.aspectj:aspectjweaver:1.8.2
> org.aspectj:aspectjrt:1.8.2
> com.google.gwt:gwt-user:2.6.1
> com.google.gwt:gwt-dev:2.6.1
> com.google.gwt:gwt-servlet:2.6.1
> com.google.gwt:2.6.1
> org.codehaus.mojo:gwt-maven-plugin:2.6.1
> com.gwtplatform:gwtp-processors:1.3.1
> com.gwtplatform:gwtp-mvp-client:1.3.1
> com.google.gwt.inject:gin:2.1.2
>
> Who will take charge of that?
>
> * patch itself looks quite harmless (not too risky)
>
> * consolidating Java source & target version across
> frontend and backend is nice!
>
> -> this means we could use Java 7 features
> also on the frontend (Java/GWT) side
>
> * TODO-GWT tags [1] proved to be helpful [2]
>
> -> reminder to all UI maintainers to use TODO-GWT
> tags whenever we have some GWT(P) workaround,
> so that the future upgrade will be safer w.r.t.
> existing code
>
> [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@ovirt.org/msg00761.html
> [2]
>
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/32135/1/frontend/webadmin/modules/webadmin/sr...
>
> Regards,
> Vojtech
>
> PS: I went through GWT-Platform release notes,
> found an interesting new feature in recent GWTP
> release, worth investigating:
>
> https://github.com/ArcBees/GWTP/wiki/Release-Notes
> #346 : Map more than one name token to presenter
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Martin Betak" <mbetak(a)redhat.com>
> > To: devel(a)ovirt.org
> > Cc: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs(a)redhat.com>, "Einav
Cohen"
> > <ecohen(a)redhat.com>,
> > "Alexander Wels" <awels(a)redhat.com>,
> > "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme(a)redhat.com>, "Tomas
Jelinek"
> > <tjelinek(a)redhat.com>, "Lior Vernia"
<lvernia(a)redhat.com>,
> > "Daniel Erez" <derez(a)redhat.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:11:10 PM
> > Subject: Moving forward our frontend stack
> >
> > Hello oVirt developers!
> >
> > I have prepared patch [1] that upgrades our frontend stack
> > to use GWT version 2.6.1 (from previous 2.5.1).
> >
> > This patch also updates GIN to version 2.1.2 and GWT-P to 1.3.1
> >
> > Since GWT 2.6 features support for Java 7 it was possible to increment
> > language levels of all projects stuck at Java 6 (common, compat,
> > searchbackend
> > and entire of frontend).
> >
> > To facilitate emitting bytecode compatible with Java 7 also upgrade of
> > AspectJ was
> > necessary. This patch upgrades it to AspectJ 1.8 that features even
> > support
> > for
> > Java 8 which will save effort when upgrading to GWT 2.7/3.0 in the
> > future.
> >
> > Most of the changes in the patch are due to upgrade of GWT-P - i.e.
> > changing
> > packages of TokenFormatter and PlaceRequest.
> >
> > Overall this patch is *MUCH* simpler than the previous
> > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/16739/
> > which facilitated upgrade from 2.3 to 2.5.1, and hopefully much less
> > risky.
> >
> > I have tested draft-compile, debug-mode and also tried to use the
> > resulting
> > application
> > manually for some time. So far everything worked (surprisingly well!) and
> > I
> > have not
> > detected any defects. Of course I invite anyone to test this patch on his
> > own
> > since
> > it is and upgrade of our core infrastructure.
> >
> > That having said I think is comparatively simple and the benefits
> > outweigh
> > the risks
> > if this upgrade is done at the beginning of ovirt-3.6 development cycle.
> >
> > Reviews, comments and testing are very welcome :-)
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/32135/
> >
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