[fedora-java] Eclipse Luna on Fedora 21 and JDK 8 requirement

[Mikolaj Izdebski]

On 11/01/2014 04:05 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> The problem is that eclipse uses third party libraries (xml-commons, xerces, apache-commons*, jetty, batik, etc.) and many Java projects do not care to set their target bytecode in the build scripts. This results in if some of this projects ends up being rebuild with Java 8 it might start using Java 8 bytecode resulting in some parts of Eclipse not working or even not starting at all.

I consider this as bugs in individual packages. If someone wants to make
effort to list Eclipse dependencies (or Fedora Java packages, in
general) which are compiled with default source/target and thus
defaulting to 1.8 then I am willing to fix or help fixing these bugs.

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Mikolaj Izdebski
Software Engineer, Red Hat
IRC: mizdebsk