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Bug 478717

Summary:	RAP 3.1 now requires Java 1.8 due to Jetty dependencies - need to run with 1.7
Product:	[RT] RAP	Reporter:	John Gymer <jgymer>
Component:	RWT	Assignee:	Project Inbox <rap-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P2	CC:	mknauer
Version:	3.1
Target Milestone:	3.1 M3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/59145
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Description John Gymer

2015-09-30 09:43:25 EDT

Changes to Jetty now mean that RAP 3.1 requires Java 1.8, rather than 1.7 as a minimum version. This is not workable for various reasons, not least because many customers need to run RAP under a variety of AppServers (JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, TomCat etc.) as WARs, and other components can only be at 1.7 level.

If possible, could RAP 3.1 explicitly use older versions of Jetty so that Java 1.7 is still a possibility?

Thanks, John

Comment 1 Markus Knauer

2015-09-30 10:31:19 EDT

Just to make sure: Our plans have *not* changed - in RAP 3.1 we want to keep Java 1.7 compatibility. Now let's see how we can fix this.

Comment 2 Markus Knauer

2015-10-28 13:37:08 EDT

As a clarification: The RAP Runtime bundles, i.e. everything in the org.eclipse.rap.* namespace does not depend on Java 1.8. As far as I can see it is only the "RAP Basic Equinox Target" feature that combines our RAP bundles with a minimal set of bundles from other projects (Equinox, Jetty, ...).

Up to RAP 3.1.0 M2 all Jetty bundles have been taken from the Eclipse Platform p2 repository. With the proposed change in Gerrit it is now possible to specify an additional p2 repository for Jetty. Based on this change it is now possible to use exact version numbers when we assemble the Equinox target feature.

Comment 3 Markus Knauer

2015-10-29 13:03:47 EDT

Jetty bundles are now independent from the Eclipse Platform contribution and back in a 1.7 compatible version (see nightly build p2 repository at [1]).

There may be reasons (e.g. security) that make an update of the included Jetty version mandatory in the future. Closing this bug as resolved.

[1] http://download.eclipse.org/rt/rap/nightly/runtime

Comment 4 John Gymer

2015-11-03 06:56:44 EST

Excellent - that's much better!  Thanks for your efforts on this!