[ovirt-devel] 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/