: "After April 2015, Oracle will no longer post updates of Java SE 7 to : its public download sites"
I'm not sure that's really relevant to the discussion? With Java5 & Java6, there was no other large scale JVM distributions then Oracle, so their EOL was extermely pertinant to the question of how long we shoud support it. With Java7, OpenJDK is out there -- as the refrence implemention of Java7 in fact -- and it's seems probable that there will continue to be community support for it long after Oracle stops officialy distributing their commercial version. So I don't think we should not let Oracle's timeframe fro mtheir commercial EOL affect our decision Playing devils advocate.... > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html That same page that makes it clear there will not longer be *public* (ie: free) "updates of Java SE 7" from oracle past that date, it also makes it clear that Oracle will continue to provide bug fix releases of Java7 for paying customers until 2019, and critical bug & security fixes until 2022. -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
