Compiling Java 6 bytecode using Java 7

[dipthegeezer]

Hi Michael

We've just rolled out Java 7 across most of our instances and are aiming to move towards that and have hit a snag when working with Simian Army. It's more related to gradle but wondered if you might have a few ideas on resolving it. We get the following error when we try to compile:

:compileJavawarning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.6

We have a few work arounds;

• disabling warnings as errors seems to work
• Also setting java_home explicitly to java6.
• There is also some talk on the inter-web about setting the bootstrapclasspath.

If you have some suggestions we'd appreciate it.

Thanks.

Dip

[dipthegeezer]

Hi also

We've noticed these warnings too which are probably the result of java 7 being a bit more stricter. Just bringing it to your attention. :D

/src/main/java/com/netflix/simianarmy/MonkeyRecorder.java:53: warning: [rawtypes] found raw type: Enum
        Enum monkeyType();

Dip

[ebukoski]

These warnings no longer occur.