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["Farmer, Jacob" <>]

Colleagues,

 

We are in the early stages of our Grouper deployment and we are focusing our attention on Java versions at the moment.  I have been reviewing the wiki, mailing list archives, and talking to colleagues and I _think_ I understand what is going on.  However, I would like to try to summarize here and would greatly appreciate corrections.  For context, we have almost completely retired Java 6 (except for one soon-to-be retired app) and only apps that will be retired in the next year are running Java 7, so I’m trying to avoid trying to get a policy exception to deploy a new app on down-level Java.

 

I understand the following to be true:

·         Grouper was designed and tested on Java 6; it is the Java version that is guaranteed to be fully functional (guarantee being, of course, a squishy concept in open source software)

·         Many (maybe most) institutions are running on Java 7 and are not experiencing problems; it can generally be considered a supported version

·         No one seems to be running a production instance on Java 8, but it should work assuming:

o   You don’t run some of the PSP examples that rely on features that don’t work in Java 8 (GRP-1141), and

o   You apply the patch to disable Java version checks (GRP-1235)

 

Is that a reasonably accurate summary?  Anything that I missed?

 

Thanks, all!

Jacob

 

P.S. I can’t seem to access GRP-1235 to view the patch, I just know about its existence from the mailing list archive.

 

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Jacob Farmer

Identity Management Systems

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