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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Short term plans/branching....
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 12:02:25 +0800
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+1 for Dan's plan
And for the JiBX with JDK8, how about we just document in the release =
notes that some optional components like JiBX won't support JDK8 due to =
they are kind of obsolete?
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Freeman(Yue) Fang

Red Hat, Inc.=20
FuseSource is now part of Red Hat


On 2014-5-20, at =E4=B8=8A=E5=8D=886:13, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:

> I don't think the JiBX support should be any concern. I haven't been =
maintaining the JiBX code for some time, and the Java 8 issue is =
probably the last nail in the coffin.
>=20
> A new release of BCEL might let JiBX limp along a little longer, but =
BCEL has been obsolete for a long time. I would have liked to strip out =
the BCEL usage and replace it with ASM, which would also have been cause =
to clean up some of the nastiest code in the project, but without some =
financial support that's not going to happen.
>=20
> So I'd say just drop JiBX support going forward.
>=20
>  - Dennis
>=20
> On 05/20/2014 07:26 AM, Daniel Kulp wrote:
>> On May 19, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Andriy Redko<drreta@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>=20
>>> >Hi Dan,
>>> >
>>> >Excellent plan! One question though: following recent discussions =
on the list,
>>> >there is strong interest in Java 8 support but we know some issues =
have to be resolved.
>>> >Do you think we can at least investigate Java 8 support and be =
ready as much as we can?
>> I know Willem and I have both been doing a bunch of experiments with =
Java8.  The main blocker we have right now is all the JIBX related stuff =
as the JIBX plugin cannot work with Java8.  It=E2=80=99s pretty much out =
of our hands (and not really even in the JIBX=E2=80=99s folks hands) as =
it would require a release of BCEL from the Apache Commons folks first.  =
 I*think*  if a BCEL release was made, we could at least build CXF with =
Java8.   That would leave a couple remaining issues:
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