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Re: RoboRio
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
From what Omar (CTRE) was telling me at CMP it will be full blown Java 8. This was a shock to me, everything I'd heard was Java 7 up until that point.
This should not be a shock, and should not be a fear. As I mentioned in my previous post:

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Originally Posted by NotInControl View Post
...However, sticking with 7 is not written in stone, and if they are comfortable enough, they can upgrade to JavaSE Embedded 8....
Java SE 8 Embedded was released sometime in March 2014. As Alpha testers we were using JavaSE 7 with latest patch because that was the latest technology available when we started alpha testing (Nov 2013).

Alpha testing was just that, Alpha. If FIRST/NI/WPI chooses to move to 8, we still have 7-8 Months of development time with SE 8. Ultimately it doesn't matter if it is 7 or 8.

There is no huge shift between Java SE Embedded 7 and Java SE Embedded 8 that is cause for concern, so no need for panic. And as an end user just writing code for the target, you don't really gain or loose much with either 7 or 8.

Any upgrade from 7 to 8 will not affect us as the end user for FRC applications.

Regards,
Kevin
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