Have Jenkins build the V2 stack with Java 6 ?

[Tom Zeller]

Soon to be a moot point, but I think we need to either (a) build the v2 stack with Java 6 or (b) add -bootclasspath[1] to the parent POM(s). A little bit of searching yields the opinion that (a) is easier because otherwise the path to the “old” JDK needs to be hardcoded into POMs.

We build the v3 stack with Oracle’s Java 7, FYI. I was wondering what exactly we would need to do to build the v3 stack using Java 8, and it looks like we should stick with 7.

My questions is : should I go through the effort of getting Java 6 on shibboleth.net for the Jenkins builds, or ignore ? It’s not a big deal to do so.

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/upgrading_major_java_versions_technical