Re: [jibx-users] JiBX and Java 8

[Gottfried T. <drg...@ya...>]

When can we expect a JiBX update that supports Java 8?


We would like to use Java 8 as soon as possible, and we would also like to continue to use of JiBX, which has served us well so far. I performed experiments to determine to what extent JiBX 1.2.5 works with Java 7 and 8. I tried the various version triplets (Java to run JiBX, VM Target, JDK Platform), where

Java to run JiBX – Java version used with JiBX compilation
VM target – VM target version of VM produced by javac
JDK platform – JDK platform version used with javac

Java versions were  Java 1.8.0-b129 and build 1.7.0_45-b18.


The results in the table below. Note that a JDK platform targets JVMs up to its own version, i.e., version(JDK platform) ≥ version(VM target), which is why there are only 6 rows.

Java to run JiBX VM target JDK platform Issues 
7 7 7 0 
7 7 8 0 
7 8 8 program runtime 
8 7 7 JiBX compile time 
8 7 8 JiBX compile time 
8 8 8 JiBX compile time 
 
Issues were

Program runtime: 
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

JiBX compile time: 
Error running binding compiler java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error loading class java.lang.CharSequence: Error reading path java/lang/CharSequence.class for class java.lang.CharSequence


Gottfried 



On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 3:57 PM, Gottfried Theimer <drg...@ya...> wrote:
 
I am very eager to know what the next update of JiBX will be and especially if it will include support for Java 8.
Gottfried