[eclipselink-dev] Should we update current master to JDK 8 ?

[Lukas Jungmann <lukas.jungmann@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

   with increasing adoption of JDK 8 it is becoming harder to provide 
support for new features/APIs there while still keeping JDK 7 
compatibility [1].

Therefore I'd like to switch our current master/2.7 to JDK 8 and have:
EclipseLink 2.5.x targeting users on JDK 6+
EclipseLink 2.6.x targeting users on JDK 7+
EclipseLink 2.7.x targeting users on JDK 8+

Does anyone have a strong reason to NOT do the switch to JDK 8 on 
master/2.7?

Thanks,
--lukas

[1]: see ie https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=446236 which 
will be easy to fix on JDK 8 but is not feasible to fix while keeping 
JDK 7 compliance