[Engine-devel] java 1.6 compatibility no more?

[Vojtech Szocs]

> Don't we need that (the source part) to avoid Java 7 syntax in GWT code?

That's a very good point.

In general, GWT compiler supports Java 5 syntax (note that there are no language changes between Java 5 and 6). For this reason, our frontend code should be compliant with Java 5. If someone uses new Java 7 language features in frontend code, GWT compiler will throw an error and the build will fail.

So the 'Java 5 only' limitation applies to frontend code and any other code (e.g. shared modules) that is directly referenced by frontend code. This shouldn't affect the backend, however.

We could do something like this:

- let oVirt root POM declare source and target compliance to Java 7
- let frontend modules POM (frontend/webadmin/modules/pom.xml) declare source compliance to Java 5 (or 6)

(note that target compliance can be left to Java 7 since frontend compilation results in JavaScript code)

What do you think?

Vojtech


----- Original Message -----
From: "Juan Hernandez" <jhernand at redhat.com>
To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
Cc: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>, engine-devel at ovirt.org
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:01:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] java 1.6 compatibility no more?

On 07/19/2012 10:09 AM, Vojtech Szocs wrote:
>> As I previously emailed - JDK7 already fixed a known issue with ldap and
>> DNS ,and made one of my patches at gerrit redundant.
>> Why not enjoy the bug fixes?
> 
> I agree, but in that case, why not switch to '1.7' Java source/target compliance for oVirt Maven build as well?
> 
> If JDK6 cannot be used for building oVirt (because of missing Java 7 APIs, because of LDAP/DNS issues in JDK6, etc.), we should also update our Maven POM files. Currently, when I import oVirt projects into Eclipse (using Eclipse Maven plugin), I'm getting compile errors on 'bll' project. This is because our Maven POM files declare '1.6' Java source/target compliance.
> 
> Juan - you are right, but for me, it sounds quite strange to have '1.6' Java source/target compliance for Maven build, and use JDK7 to do the build.

Don't we need that (the source part) to avoid Java 7 syntax in GWT code?

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>
> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:59:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] java 1.6 compatibility no more?
> 
> On 07/18/2012 08:21 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote:
>> On 07/18/2012 06:33 PM, Vojtech Szocs wrote:
>>> In fact, for both backend and frontend, Maven effective POM contains:
>>>
>>> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
>>> <configuration>
>>>   <source>1.6</source>
>>>   <target>1.6</target>
>>> </configuration>
>>>
>>> Therefore, according to Maven POM files, oVirt should be build-able using Java 6, but it's not. (?)
>>
>> These maven settings just tell the java compiler to accept Java 6 syntax
>> only and to generate a Java 6 compatible .class file format, but they
>> don't restrict the set of APIs that can be used.
>>
>>> The problem is in backend/manager/modules/bll: StorageDomainCommandBase class uses new Java 7 Long.compare() static method.
>>>
>>> I think we should decide if we want to be compliant with Java 7, or submit a patch that uses Java 6 API (Long.compareTo instance method).
>>>
>>> Vojtech
> 
> As I previously emailed - JDK7 already fixed a known issue with ldap and
> DNS ,and made one of my patches at gerrit redundant.
> Why not enjoy the bug fixes?
> 
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
>>> To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
>>> Cc: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 5:43:34 PM
>>> Subject: java 1.6 compatibility no more?
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It may be a historic moment, but for a few hours oVirt engine is no longer building on java 1.6.
>>> Is this intentional?
>>>
>>> Laszlo
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