[Building Sakai] Mneme + 2.9.x + Java 7

[Robert E. Long]

Earle,

Thanks for your reply. I have made an executive decision to hold off on upgrading to 2.9 this summer. I'm going to grab the 2.8.x-all maintenance branch and customize that.

So, the issue is no longer. 

Thank you,
Bob

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Robert E. Long, MA
Lead Java Software Engineer / Analyst
Educational Technology Instructor
Saginaw Valley State University
M.A., Instructional Technology
relong at svsu.edu
O: 989.964.2245





On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Earle Nietzel wrote:

> If the build is failing in those tools the first thing would to be to
> figure out where the build fails i.e. when running tests, or actually
> doing a compile.
> 
> I am going to guess its failing in a test since 9 times out of 10
> thats probably where the problem will be.
> 
> In JUnit your tests are not guaranteed to run in the order they appear
> in your TestCase, but prior to Java 7 this tended to be the norm and
> so people have come to rely on it. But in Java 7 this not the case so
> make sure that each test is self contained, i.e. a test depending on a
> previous test that inserted some stuff in a database is not good
> practice and these are the kinds of tests that will break in Java 7.
> In the end "Each test should be independent".
> 
> If its a compile issue it will usually be an issue with another
> library i.e. xalan, xerces. Since newer versions of these libraries
> are packaged with the JDK. This happened to be an issue in rwiki and
> you can see the fix here
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22210
> 
> If that doesn't help your going to have post the specifics!
> 
> Earle
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Robert E. Long <relong at svsu.edu> wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> Has anyone been able to get the following to build and deploy on Sakai
>> 2.9.x-all and Java 7?
>> 
>> mneme 2.1.10
>> ambrosia 2.1.10
>> etudes-util 1.0.13
>> 
>> If so, any tips?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>> 
>> ----
>> Robert E. Long, MA
>> Lead Java Software Engineer / Analyst
>> Educational Technology Instructor
>> Saginaw Valley State University
>> M.A., Instructional Technology
>> relong at svsu.edu
>> O: 989.964.2245
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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