[kepler-dev] Java 7 and ant 1.8.2

[Daniel Crawl]

I'd like to require Java 7 for Kepler. Java 7 has new features and
better performance, and Oracle is no longer publicly releasing security
updates for Java 6. Does anyone object to Kepler requiring Java 7?

For developers compiling Kepler, ant 1.8.2 or later is now required.
With the addition of new modules and jars, the class path has exceeded
the maximum path length on Windows. To avoid this problem, I've updated
the Kepler build system to use wildcards for the class path instead of
referencing individual jars. The earliest version of ant that supports
wildcards in the class path is 1.8.2.

   --dan