[Libreoffice] java 7

[Marc-André Laverdière]

I guess we're too short of volunteers right now to have a better strategy :)

So wait and see it is!

Marc-André Laverdière
Software Security Scientist
Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India

On 07/06/2011 11:30 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>
> On 06/07/2011 07:54, Marc-André Laverdière wrote:
>> Hello Jonathan,
>>
>> I asked a similar question before. LO will keep supporting Java for
>> UNO (extensions) for sure.
>> Right now, LO doesn't bundle a JVM, and I think it will remain like
>> that :) So whichever JVM the user uses will be invoked to run whatever
>> code is needed.
>>
>> There might be some incompatibilities between Java 7 and previous
>> versions that may cause some bugs. I hope not, sincerely.
>>
>> I haven't heard of a Java 7 testing plan in place though. Maybe you
>> could initiate one?
>>
>> Marc-André Laverdière
>> Software Security Scientist
>> Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services
>> Hyderabad, India
>>
>> On 07/01/2011 09:06 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>>> I got an email form oracle that java 7 is due out in july Is that goign
>>> to affect anything in regards to LO?
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> Marc-Andre
>
> Currently im working on another aspect of LO development which is taking
> up my time currently. If I am not mistaken for the most part when new
> versions of java are released, they try to keep it as backwards
> compatible as possible, granted some methods or classes might become
> obsolete. Maybe once java7 goes live ill do some testing and see how
> badly things break.
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