Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 11 years ago
#8465 closed enhancement
Switch to Java 7 — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Don-vip | Owned by: | team |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 14.05 |
| Component: | Core | Version: | |
| Keywords: | java7 | Cc: |
Description
Oracle has released their final public update of Java 6 (Update 41) and has implemented a "6 to 7" auto-update feature that will concern nearly all Windows and Mac users:
when updating from JRE 6, the update mechanism will not only install the latest version of JRE 7 but will also remove the highest version of JRE 6 on the system. This change will happen when the system is updated via the auto-update mechanism or by checking for updates directly from the Java Control Panel.
In the meanwhile, Linux distributions start to ship OpenJDK7 has their default implementation. Ubuntu ships Java 7 as default since version 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal).
Therefore, we will have soon a majority of users that will run JOSM with Java 7. Maybe it is already the case ? What are the current usage statistics ?
We have a couple of tickets that could benefit from switching to Java 7. I'm thinking at least to #7406, #7896 and #8098.
Java 7 ships also language improvements and some other features JOSM could use, mainly in parallelism, I/O and rendering:
- http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/language/enhancements.html#javase7
- http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/ui/r3_8/Java7news/whats-new-java-7.html
- http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/java-7-whats-in-it-developers-170636?page=0,1
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdk7-relnotes-418459.html
So, when do you think we could switch ?
