Think you're being over critical of Java SE 6 on MacOS.
I just took today's 2.1.4-SNAPSHOT build and it took the same 13 secs.
to start under 1.6.0_07 and 1.5.0_16 on my MacBook running OSX 10.5.5.
-Donald
Jason Dillon wrote:
On Nov 7, 2008, at 11:33 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
I'm for moving to a Java SE 6 only runtime for Geronimo 2.2.
I'm not kean on the idea. Java SE 6 has not been out for that long,
relatively speaking and a lot of production environments will still be
on Java SE 5.
Personally I'm in the same boat... One major reason for me is that Java
SE 6 isn't really all that well supported on Mac OS X yet, while the
platform does have an implementation, its slow and buggy... which does
cause problems for many Geronimo developers.
But also, IMO there isn't anything ubersignificant in SE 6 that G needs
to function. The javax.script stuff would be nice, though we don't
really need that at the moment. The java.io.Console stuff would be good
too... but again, not critical for the functionality or operation.
While I wish Mac OS X (and the rest of the world) would hurry up and get
things kick ass optimal on SE 6 right the *uck now, the reality is that
it isn't and unless there is a significant reason to make SE 6 the
baseline java version I will strongly push back.
--jason
