Antonio Gallardo wrote:
Do you agree with JSDK 1.4 as the lower Java version supported in Cocoon 2.2?
Here is my +1
-0.5
Even though 1.4 is available for most platforms, and I've been using it exclusively for quite a long time, I still think there are many environments where people are forced to use 1.3 (not to mention 1.2) and upgrading wouldn't be an easy task.
Does anyone here have any direct experience with such a situation? I am having a hard time imagining a case where a new development effort would be forced for technical reasons not to deploy on a newer backwards compatible jdk. Old 1.3 code will run (in some cases after recompilation), and old projects can still use whatever jvm version they need. But a new project based on a new version of Cocoon? Ok, a 2.1 project may want to upgrade but my experiences have shown upgrading jvm generally painless compared to upgrading Cocoon versions...
Geoff
If, and when, we have something that absolutely requires 1.4 (say, a new caching system based on NIO, like Pier suggested), we might reconsider this requirement. Doing it now would just alienate many users without really buying us anything important.
I suggest to repeat this vote when we have a proposed time frame for the release of 2.2.
Ugo
