JDK 1.8 support road map for EAP customers

[blackbeltdev]

We are a current EAP customer and are planning to start a new project within a month. Expected release date would be Aug/Sept timeframe. Will JDK 1.8 be a supported environment in the EAP product line?

Thanks

[ctomc]

For any questions relating official road map / future support you should talk to your Red Hat representative or create a ticket via customer portal.

Said that, EAP6.2 already works quite well with JDK8.

Also until JDK8 is officially out it is hard to do any hard promises.

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tomaz

[blackbeltdev]

Understood. I'll check with our rep on official status. It's only 8 days from release now! Can't wait

[blackbeltdev]

Here's the response from posting to EAP customer portal to the question: ""When will EAP support Java 1.8 and at what product version?". Not too helpful

https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/662713

Java 8 is not currently supported as it is not tested. We do not have any patches for adding support at this time. Please refer to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6 Supported Configurations article for information regarding the supported set of Java versions.

I'm wondering if he doesn't know the answer and we unluckily got the wrong person. I know there was a major conference a couple of weeks ago on JavaEE7 roadmap in San Francisco. I don't know if Java 8 was discussed but I have to imagine that someone else brought it up. Any changes that you are aware of?

Thanks

[adila01]

Looking at Tomaz response at this question Java SE 8 support in EAP 6.3, it looks like Java SE 8 will be be supported in EAP 6.3