On Sat, 13 Oct 2012, Ivan Maidanski wrote: > If you could show the community that upgrading to 1.7 brings some > benefit (e.g., like above) then it is ok to upgrade to 1.7 directly > (thus eliminating Classpath VM implementors efforts to verify with 1.6).
Java 1.7 has some nice language changes: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/language/enhancements.html#javase7 and more importantly, invokedynamic, that's heavily used by upcoming JRuby 1.7. IIRC, Scala 2.10 will no longer run on Java 1.5 either. Pekka