Re: [epp-dev] m2e minimal execution environment

[Steffen Pingel <steffen.pingel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to add to that, if I run the Juno SR2 Java package with Java 1.5 and launch help it fails with the exception below. Since some components require 1.6 already it makes sense to make that the minimum requirement for packages:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2013-02-18 11:52:17.642

!MESSAGE Unhandled event loop exception

!STACK 0

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/equinox/http/jetty/JettyConfigurator

        at org.eclipse.help.internal.server.JettyHelpServer$StartServerThread.run(JettyHelpServer.java:78)

And WindowBuilder with similar errorson 1.5...

Steffen

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Given that Java 6 is already end-of-life[1], I think its safely mature enough to move to :)

 

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/java_6_eol_h_h

 

Mike Milinkovich

mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx

+1.613.220.3223

 

From: epp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:epp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Markus Knauer
Sent: February-14-13 7:46 AM
To: Eclipse Packaging Project

Subject: Re: [epp-dev] m2e minimal execution environment

 

Concerns, no, not really, but maybe we should consider a change in all EPP packages for Kepler.

At the moment we define 1.5 as a minimum Java version by defining

  -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5

in the VM arguments. That way we prevent users with an older VM running the Eclipse packages, but IMO this setting could (should!) be updated to 1.6 in the Kepler packages if everyone agrees to that and no one has any valid objections.

Regards, Markus

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Igor Fedorenko <ifedorenko@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Are there any concerns if I change m2e to require at least java 1.6 for
Kepler? m2e is part of "java" package and I believe there is a proposal
to include it in "jee" too.

I think it is reasonable to assume noone cares about 1.5 if even Eclipse
Platform does not consider 1.5 as one of reference platforms any more ;-)

http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=eclipse

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Regards,
Igor
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