Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Java 5 no longer supported as runtime?

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Here are the some of the most important
posts/bugs/discussions on the topic. 
Good luck catching up! :) 

http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/msg09720.html
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/msg09522.html
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/msg09424.html
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=416432
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Architecture_Council/Meetings/September_12_2013#Minimum_BREE





From:      
 "Wenz, Michael"
<michael.wenz@xxxxxxx>
To:      
 "Cross project
issues (cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx)" <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,

Date:      
 09/30/2013 06:32 AM
Subject:    
   [cross-project-issues-dev]
Java 5 no longer supported as runtime?
Sent by:    
   cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hi all,
 
I just switched our Graphiti build to
the Eclipse Core update site for Luna M2 (http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.4milestones/S-4.4M2-201309182000/).
After doing that our tests failed with UnsupportedClassVersionError and
NoClassDefFoundError.
 
We are still using the rather outdated
Java 1.5 for compilation and starting the tests, but so far this was not
a problem. After anylysing the test failure, it seems these exceptions
are caused by the class org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter
(part of the plugin org.eclipse.osgi) being compiled using Java 1.6.
 
I remember a lengthy discussion on the
usage of Java 1.5 in this group, but don’t remember a specific result
or action item. Now I wonder, if that switch (compiling org.eclipse.osgi
using Java 1.6) happened by accident or on purpose. If the latter, has
there been any announcement I missed?
 
Thanks,
Michael_______________________________________________
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