Giant Caves

Giant Caves

Bukkit Plugins
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Requires Java 7

Hawkers opened this issue · 2 comments

commented

Most bukkit plugins don't require Java 7. It would be better to compile this under Java 6 for better compatibility.

commented

Java 7 has been publicly available since 2011. Why can you not use the
latest JVM?

-Ryan

On Mar 25, 2013, at 6:06 PM, Scott Aikin [email protected] wrote:

Most bukkit plugins don't require Java 7. It would be better to compile
this under Java 6 for better compatibility.

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commented

Here's a list of things that Java 7 does better than Java 6:

  • Mostly open source, which means that Windows and Linux get the same JRE/JDK.
  • Faster and much more optimized due to being open source.
  • Safer than Java 6, Java 7 finally uses native binaries for randomness and similar. (Java 6 emulated that behaviour mostly)
  • Much more stable in performance, as the new Garbage Collection code reuses space and objects instead of throwing them away.

If you really need a Java 6 build, you should be able to compile one.