[Libreoffice] java 7

[Jonathan Aquilina]

On 06/07/2011 07:59, Marc-André Laverdière wrote:
> 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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Maybe we dont have to wait and see. I am sure there are extension 
developers that are just as concerned we just havent found them yet. I 
would like to hear some other developers takes on the impending release 
of java7