opensaml 3.0-SNAPSHOT

[ben leinfelder]

Hi Scott,
Thanks for the quick reply. We'll move our stack up to Java 7, too.
On a related note, what's your anticipated timeline for a 3.0 release [candidate]?
-ben

On Mar 8, 2013, at 11:47 AM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> On 3/8/13 2:42 PM, "ben leinfelder" <leinfelder at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> I've been helping develop an ECP client using opensaml 3.0 snapshots from
>> maven. Recently these artifacts changed and are now being built by JDK
>> 1.7 which means I cannot run them with Java 6. Was that intentional and
>> will opensaml 3.0 require Java 7? Perhaps this is simply an oversight and
>> the libraries can revert to be built using JDK 1.6.
> 
> It's intentional and we will be requiring Java 7. Java 1.6 is End of Life.
> 
> The current code could still be targeted at 1.6, and we have not
> determined whether the class file format will have to change or not, but
> we *will* be using Java 7 language features, and if any of those require
> --target 1.7, that's what we'll be doing. In no case will we be supporting
> 1.6 officially.
> 
> -- Scott
> 
> 
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