> Can you also give me some examples of plugins not working after you switched to Java 8?
We updated to 2.5.x and also the the latest versions of all plug-ins, and most stuff was working again with Java 8.
Plug-ins that had problems despite the 2.5.x update with Java 8:
- Resources plug-in, so we switched to AssetPipeline - this was the biggest code change
- Searchable: this plug-in breaks the schema-export tasks, so we need to deactivate it when we generate DDLs. There's also no update, since it's discontinued .
- GORM - Many2Many relationships with Oracle when doing updates (hibernate 3) : the generated/scaffold code works with H2, but not with Oracle, so manual handling is required.
We also tried to jump directly to the 3.x path, but since it's backward incompatible, it requires practically a complete rewrite of applications (the customers won't ever pay for this), and the most important feature of Grails for us: dynamic scaffolding is not working correctly :(.
Regards,
Adrian A.