[Building Sakai] JDK 7 and Sakai 2.10

[Steve Swinsburg]

I would suggest setting it as 1.6 until there are 1.7 packages for all platforms.

cheers,
Steve



On 21/02/2012, at 7:06 AM, Earle Nietzel wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Since Java 6's EOL is set for November 2012 it is time to push forward
> and make Java 7 official.
> (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html)
> 
> The Maintenance/CLE Team recently discussed this and the work is
> ready to be committed to sakai trunk shortly.
> 
> A new property will be introduced to the master pom and to the kernel pom:
> 
> <sakai.jdk.version>1.7</sakai.jdk.version>
> 
> So that other poms that have make use of a jdk version like the
> maven-compiler-plugin will change to:
> 
> <plugin>
>    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
>    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
>    <version>2.3.2</version>
>    <configuration>
>         <source>${sakai.jdk.version}</source>
>         <target>${sakai.jdk.version}</target>
>    </configuration>
> </plugin>
> 
> Projects in sakai-trunk-all that use this plugin will be updated. Note
> not all projects use the maven compiler plugin but if they declare
> a parent they could inherit the config from master. For those projects
> that don't they will be compiled using the jdk version they are
> compiling with which is the norm.
> 
> Explicitly setting this property also serves as way to say this is the
> java version that was tested and is supported for this sakai version.
> 
> Another topic was to officially support OpenJDK java versions, since
> OpenJDK is open sourced it seemed like a natural fit. This also was
> due to Oracle decision to remove packaging support for linux in future
> versions of the JDK, which is in support of making the OpenJDK the
> preferred Java for linux.
> 
> Another topic is there is no released version of JDK 7 for Mac users
> only a preview at http://jdk7.java.net/macportpreview/
> Because of this we may want to set the current version to 1.6 until
> there is a official release of JDK 7 for Mac users and then change it
> to 1.7 when its officially released.
> 
> As you can see it would be trivial to go in and set it to 1.6 or 1.7?
> 
> Any thoughts or comments?
> 
> Earle / CLE Team
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