Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog

Tuesday August 11, 2009

JDK 7 Build Prepped for Language Changes

After build hacking by Jon and Kelly, the JDK 7 build now uses -source 7 and -target 7 to compile the Java code, meaning the build is prepped allow use of new language features as they become available and to take advantage of version 51.0 class file features (6854244, 6827026).

(For bootstrapping purposes, the langtools repository housing javac and friends will remain buildable with JDK 6.)