Oracle to end publicly available security fixes for Java 7 this month

[Jacques Le Roux]

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2909685/application-development/oracle-cutting-publicly-available-security-fixes-for-java-7-this-month.html

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Jacques

[taher]

Ouch! How is this going to impact the project? Should the currently supported releases be upgraded to JDK 8?

----- Original Message -----

From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Friday, 17 April, 2015 6:40:18 PM
Subject: Oracle to end publicly available security fixes for Java 7 this month

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2909685/application-development/oracle-cutting-publicly-available-security-fixes-for-java-7-this-month.html 

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Jacques

[Pierre Smits]

Having OFBiz optimised for JDK 8 is an improvement.

Are we sure that we want to spend our combined effort of improving current
releases, which are either almost at the end of the supported life cycle or
an mistake? Better is it to work towards a future release that doesn't
depends on EoL-ed JDKs.

Best regards,

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Taher Alkhateeb <[hidden email]
> wrote:

> Ouch! How is this going to impact the project? Should the currently
> supported releases be upgraded to JDK 8?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]>
> To: [hidden email]
> Sent: Friday, 17 April, 2015 6:40:18 PM
> Subject: Oracle to end publicly available security fixes for Java 7 this
> month
>
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/2909685/application-development/oracle-cutting-publicly-available-security-fixes-for-java-7-this-month.html
>
> No comments
>
> Jacques
>
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

All releases and of course the trunk are running under Java 8 after https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6252

So it's more a warning for users, because only the branches are fixed, not the released packages yet...

Jacques

Le 17/04/2015 18:01, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit :

> Ouch! How is this going to impact the project? Should the currently supported releases be upgraded to JDK 8?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]>
> To: [hidden email]
> Sent: Friday, 17 April, 2015 6:40:18 PM
> Subject: Oracle to end publicly available security fixes for Java 7 this month
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/2909685/application-development/oracle-cutting-publicly-available-security-fixes-for-java-7-this-month.html
>
> No comments
>
> Jacques
>
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Le 17/04/2015 18:30, Pierre Smits a écrit :
> Having OFBiz optimised for JDK 8 is an improvement.

Could be soon a security issue if people are forced to continue to use Java 1.7 which will soon be no longer supported...

> Are we sure that we want to spend our combined effort of improving current
> releases, which are either almost at the end of the supported life cycle or
> an mistake? Better is it to work towards a future release that doesn't
> depends on EoL-ed JDKs.

It's our responsibility to at least advice users to consider moving to Java 8

Jacques

>
> Best regards,
>
> Pierre Smits
>
> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
> Based Manufacturing, Professional
> Services and Retail & Trade
> http://www.orrtiz.com
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Taher Alkhateeb <[hidden email]
>> wrote:
>> Ouch! How is this going to impact the project? Should the currently
>> supported releases be upgraded to JDK 8?
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]>
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Sent: Friday, 17 April, 2015 6:40:18 PM
>> Subject: Oracle to end publicly available security fixes for Java 7 this
>> month
>>
>>
>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/2909685/application-development/oracle-cutting-publicly-available-security-fixes-for-java-7-this-month.html
>>
>> No comments
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>>

[Pierre Smits]

The EoL of such an important aspect could also be regarded as a pro to
migrate to a newer release of OFBiz.

Best regards,

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Jacques Le Roux <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Le 17/04/2015 18:30, Pierre Smits a écrit :
>
>> Having OFBiz optimised for JDK 8 is an improvement.
>>
>
> Could be soon a security issue if people are forced to continue to use
> Java 1.7 which will soon be no longer supported...
>
>  Are we sure that we want to spend our combined effort of improving current
>> releases, which are either almost at the end of the supported life cycle
>> or
>> an mistake? Better is it to work towards a future release that doesn't
>> depends on EoL-ed JDKs.
>>
>
> It's our responsibility to at least advice users to consider moving to
> Java 8
>
> Jacques
>
>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Pierre Smits
>>
>> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
>> Services & Solutions for Cloud-
>> Based Manufacturing, Professional
>> Services and Retail & Trade
>> http://www.orrtiz.com
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Taher Alkhateeb <
>> [hidden email]
>>
>>> wrote:
>>> Ouch! How is this going to impact the project? Should the currently
>>> supported releases be upgraded to JDK 8?
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>> From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]>
>>> To: [hidden email]
>>> Sent: Friday, 17 April, 2015 6:40:18 PM
>>> Subject: Oracle to end publicly available security fixes for Java 7 this
>>> month
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/2909685/application-development/oracle-cutting-publicly-available-security-fixes-for-java-7-this-month.html
>>>
>>> No comments
>>>
>>> Jacques
>>>
>>>
>>>