GWT version with Java 8 support

[nvji...@gmail.com]

Does anybody know when GWT with Java 8 support will be released? I saw version 2.7 and maybe 3.0 will support Java 8, both versions was planned to release this summer. But I could not find exact relaese date...

 

 

[Thomas Broyer]

The initially planned 3.0 has been rebranded to 2.7. It won't support Java 8.

3.0 will be released in late 2014 / early 2015, and should include the Java 8 support.

[David]

And when will 2.7 then be released ? I was hoping on a release during google IO but nothing was announced.

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[Gilberto]

[Bademus l.]

It's a pity that java8 support was delayed, but I believe GWT team have the reason.

Do you plan to provide 3.0-SNAPSHOTS with Java8 support or stable 2,7 + java8 support build (let's call it 2.8-SNAPSHOT)?

Thanks

[Thomas Broyer]

On Monday, July 7, 2014 1:50:40 PM UTC+2, Bademus l. wrote:

It's a pity that java8 support was delayed, but I believe GWT team have the reason.

Priorities vs. limited resources ;-)

 

Do you plan to provide 3.0-SNAPSHOTS with Java8 support or stable 2,7 + java8 support build (let's call it 2.8-SNAPSHOT)?

There are nightly builds of the master branch (currently 2.7.0-SNAPSHOT) published to https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/google-snapshots/

When we cut 2.7, those should become 3.0-SNAPSHOT; and as soon as Java 8 support gets merged in, you'll be able to use it.

[Thanos]

There were initially two aspects to java8  support. 

1) Lambda compilation

2) SDK emulation

It was indicated that 1 but not 2, may still make GWT 2.7. Allowing for some of the benefits for reduced verbosity now, if you avoid using java8 only JDK bits. Have both 1 and 2 been pushed to GWT 3.0 now?

Mark

[Thomas Broyer]

On Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:57:33 PM UTC+2, Thanos wrote:

There were initially two aspects to java8  support. 

1) Lambda compilation

2) SDK emulation

It was indicated that 1 but not 2, may still make GWT 2.7. Allowing for some of the benefits for reduced verbosity now, if you avoid using java8 only JDK bits. Have both 1 and 2 been pushed to GWT 3.0 now?

"1" might make it in 2.7: https://gwt-review.googlesource.com/9260, but it might be blocked by https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=8914 

[David]

Oh that would be really sweet! The SDK stuff can wait, but Java 8 syntax would be such an improvement for GWT coding.

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[Andrés Testi]

Also, don't forget  getAnnotationsByType(), getDeclaredAnnotation() and getDeclaredAnnotationsByType()  for c.g.g.core.ext.typeinfo.HasAnnotations. It may sound trivial, but needs a hard refactoring on the old ASM fork.

- Andrés Testi

[Andrés Testi]

Good news, I just realized that Ray has updated ASM to 5.0.3!

- Andrés Testi