<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Well, just beacuse it happened me to ask the same thing recently, anyway there are several improvements in java 7. Both in <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/vm/performance-enhancements-7.html">performance </a>and in language syntax. For example, recently it happens that I couldn't use a switch statement using strings.<br></div><br></div>Also, <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html#Java6-end-public-updates">security updates</a> for java 6 are already outdated. I'm not very sure, this could be not an issue if they refer to the vm itself programs (since old compiled code can be executed by newer releases), but it could be if they refer to fixes to the system library. Anyone has an opinion about that?<br><br></div>bye bye,<br>Paolo<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-07 19:01 GMT+02:00 Andreas Prlic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreas@sdsc.edu" target="_blank">andreas@sdsc.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Based on RCSB PDB analytics, I would estimate that somewhere between 10-20% of all users are still on Java 1.6. If we would upgrade to 1.7 we would break biojava derived applets and Java web start for these. As such I'd vote for staying conservative and to NOT upgrade to 1.7 at this time, in particular since there is no strong reason for the move. Less than 2% of users seem to be using 1.8 currently.</div><div><br></div><div>Please note: anybody who is using the biojava jars can still build a derived application in 1.7 or 1.8, even if the underlying .jars have been compiled with an older version. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Andreas</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Michael Heuer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:heuermh@gmail.com" target="_blank">heuermh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm fine bumping to Java 7 as the minimum, although if there isn't a<br>
strong reason to move from Java 6 we might as well stay there.<br>
<br>
I have found a few problems with Java 8, e.g.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam/issues/198" target="_blank">https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam/issues/198</a><br>
<a href="https://github.com/nmdp-bioinformatics/ngs/issues/34" target="_blank">https://github.com/nmdp-bioinformatics/ngs/issues/34</a><br>
<br>
so I wouldn't want to move to Java 8 as a minimum at this time.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
michael<br>
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Jose Manuel Duarte <<a href="mailto:jose.duarte@psi.ch" target="_blank">jose.duarte@psi.ch</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> So has Java 6 been decided as the version for the 4.0 release? Just asking<br>
>> as Douglas' suggestion is solid (I actually wasn't aware of that<br>
>> functionality).<br>
>><br>
><br>
> [moved to a new thread]<br>
><br>
> I would definitely vote for next release to be at least Java 7, I would even<br>
> try Java 8 to be more future proof. At the moment Java 7 is already 3 years<br>
> old and very established. By the time we release Biojava 4, Java 6 will<br>
> surely be quite ancient (around 8 years old).<br>
><br>
> Any thoughts?<br>
><br>
> Jose<br>
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