Re: [Exist-development] Java 8 sooner

[Wolfgang M. <wol...@ex...>]

> Java 8 looks good for me. In production for several months.

Same here. eXist 2.2 runs perfectly well on java 8. We tested this
extensively before the release.

There are a few minor test failures which still have to be addressed (see
Dannes' report), but I assume they are more likely issues of the test suite
rather than real problems. In production I have not been able to see any
issue at all.

So from an end user perspective, it should all be ok. For sure we'll
completely switch to 8 with the next release. I don't see a need to keep
java 7 compatibility for much longer.

Wolfgang