[TIMOB-18483] Android: Upgrade version of JDK on jenkins.appcelerator.org

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Story
Priority	Low
Status	Closed
Resolution	Done
Resolution Date	2018-08-15T03:30:30.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	Android
Labels	n/a
Reporter	Ingo Muschenetz
Assignee	Ashraf Abu
Created	2015-01-30T20:07:52.000+0000
Updated	2018-08-15T03:30:30.000+0000

Description

During compilation of titanium_mobile, we have a number of errors like: "[javac] warning: android/text/method/DialerKeyListener.class(android/text/method:DialerKeyListener.class): major version 51 is newer than 50, the highest major version supported by this compiler. [javac] It is recommended that the compiler be upgraded." The current version used for compilation is JDK 6. Recommend upgrading to JDK 7. This is a tooling ticket (as opposed to a DevOps ticket) as it _could_ have ramifications on Android.

Comments

Ingo Muschenetz 2015-01-30

Tried doing this (had to use JDK8), and got the following: http://jenkins.appcelerator.org/job/titanium_mobile_master/3836/console

       [javac] Note: [KrollBindingGen] Generating JSON: file:/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/titanium_mobile_master/workspace/dist/android/json/org/appcelerator/titanium/bindings/titanium.json
        [copy] Copying 18 files to /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/titanium_mobile_master/workspace/dist/android/classes/titanium
        [copy] Copied 21 empty directories to 9 empty directories under /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/titanium_mobile_master/workspace/dist/android/classes/titanium
       [javac] Compiling 105 source files to /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/titanium_mobile_master/workspace/dist/android/classes/titanium
       [javac] warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.6
       [javac] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/titanium_mobile_master/workspace/android/titanium/src/java/org/appcelerator/titanium/TiBlob.java:561: error: cannot access BinaryEncoder
       [javac] 		return new String(Base64.encodeBase64(getBytes()));
       [javac] 		                        ^
       [javac]   class file for org.apache.commons.codec.BinaryEncoder not found
       [javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
       [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
       [javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
       [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
       [javac] 1 error
       [javac] 1 warning

It appears there are at least a few issues to resolve.

Tim Poulsen 2015-06-01

JDK 1.7 was EOL'd in March with the end of updates in April. Any chance we'll see support for 1.8 soon? http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/eol-135779.html
Ingo Muschenetz 2015-06-01

[~skypanther] This ticket is for using JDK 1.8 for compilation of the SDK. Is that what you are interested in?
Tim Poulsen 2015-06-01

Yep. I had to downgrade the version of the JDK on my computer to build the SDK from source.
Christopher Williams 2015-09-30

I cloned off a blocking ticket for fixing the JDK 8+ compile issue: TIMOB-19648 That ticket has an open PR against master. Once merged, I assume we can update the JDK on the build server (for master builds).

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