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At the Sakai Core Team call there were some compelling reasons to move past Java 6 and the minimum language requirement.
Java 6 EOL
Newer third party libs require Java 7 to run (For example Elastic Search 1.2)
language syntax bump (can now use Java 7 language features)
SUCCESS: Integrated in sakai-trunk-java-1.7 #510 (See http://builds.sakaiproject.org:8080/job/sakai-trunk-java-1.7/510/) remove java 1.6 profiles in search (enietzel@anisakai.com: rev 315021)
Earle:
search/search-impl/impl/pom.xml:20: <jdk>1.6</jdk>search/search-test/pom.xml:20: <jdk>1.6</jdk>
SUCCESS: Integrated in sakai-trunk-java-1.7 #501 (See http://builds.sakaiproject.org:8080/job/sakai-trunk-java-1.7/501/) make java 7 the default language syntax (enietzel@anisakai.com: rev 314932)
At the Sakai Core Team call there were some compelling reasons to move past Java 6 and the minimum language requirement.
Java 6 EOL
Newer third party libs require Java 7 to run (For example Elastic Search 1.2)
language syntax bump (can now use Java 7 language features)