Supporting Java 8 in the standalone too

[darius (Darius Jazayeri)]

Continuing the discussion from OpenMRS is not able to start:

@dkayiwa

Hi Justine,

The standalone does not yet support Java 8. Can you take a look at this page and see how to run the standalone with lower versions of Java? https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/OpenMRS+Standalone

@maany, noticing this, we definitely need to fix this as part of the Platform 2.0 release, so I wanted to make sure it’s on your radar.

I see this ticket [STAND-78] - OpenMRS Issues – can we repurpose this as a Platform 2.0 ticket?

[maany (Mayank Sharma)]

yup @darius, this needs to be done @dkayiwa do the standalone release versions coincide with the Platform release version i.e would Platform 2.0 lead to the release of Standalone 2.0? I’ll update the FixVersion of the issue accordingly on JIRA

[michael (Michael Downey)]

Right now we are only releasing the Standalone edition of the Reference Application (aka OpenMRS 2.x).

[darius (Darius Jazayeri)]

This is incorrect. If you go to openmrs.org/download we have “Platform 1.11.4 Standalone Edition” (and I think we have always released standalones of the platform…)

Releasing “Platform 2.0” should include the simultaneous release of “Platform 2.0 Standalone Edition”.

[michael (Michael Downey)]

Oops, yep. Not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that.