HEADS UP: Switched to 1.8 source/target in build (in graphics repository).

[Felipe Heidrich]

I have 4.3M7 installed I see no support for Java 8. I think Tom has it right.

See
http://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_Core/Java8
http://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_UI/Java8

I downloaded 
git clone -b  BETA_JAVA8 ssh://fheidric@git.eclipse.org/gitroot/jdt/eclipse.jdt.ui.git
git clone -b  BETA_JAVA8 ssh://fheidric@git.eclipse.org/gitroot/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core.git

Imported it all to 4.3M7 and self-hosted, now I can see compiler compliance level of 1.8 Beta in the preference page.
I'm still working to make it work for JFX…

Felipe



On May 7, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Tom Schindl wrote:

> I highly doubt that eclipse can handle *any* java8 code you'd have to run with a special jdt git branch. You can see the state in http://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_Core/Java8 and/or https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=380190
> 
> Tom
> 
> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
> 
> Am 07.05.2013 um 20:48 schrieb Jonathan Giles <jonathan.giles at oracle.com>:
> 
>> I did have trouble with eclipse once we moved to Java 8 earlier in the week, but this was really fixed by updating my eclipse install to instead be the latest Kepler (4.3) milestone build, rather than 4.2.2.
>> 
>> 
>> -- Jonathan
>> Sent from a touch device. Please excuse my brevity.
>> 
>> Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> People using Eclipse as their IDE will not have fun with that I guess because their IDE will not compile the code anymore, so one can't use Eclipse anymore to provide patches - nothing you really care I guess.
>>> 
>>> Steve, Felipe, or Jonathan would have to comment on what this does to them I guess -- they all use Eclipse for development.
>>> 
>>>> I don't argue that you should not do this because Eclipse does not yet support it (which is a shame for Eclipse) but you are excluding other VMs who don't support those concepts - most notable invoke dynamic - this makes a community port of JavaFX to iOS fairly impossible.
>>> 
>>> I think it would be fairly easy to just filter out those classes and replace the ObservableList with a version that doesn't have the defender methods. We had to do such things to make JavaFX mobile work back in the day. It is a short term problem because VMs and IDEs are going to move forward.
>>> 
>>> Richard