Le 7/16/13 10:34 AM, Steve Ulrich a écrit : >> sebb [mailto:seb...@gmail.com] wrote: >> >> On 21 May 2013 10:02, Steve Ulrich <steve.ulr...@proemion.com> wrote: >>> 2 Reasons for 7.0: >>> 1) When MINA 3 is released, Java 8 is near or already released >>> 2) Developers who don't want to upgrade to Java 7 because of the >> (testing, developing, whatever) effort won't upgrade to MINA 3 either. >> >> I don't think that's generally true. >> If MINA is part of a larger system, then updating Java as well as MINA >> is a lot more work and testing than just updating MINA. >> Especially if the system is installed on multiple nodes which may have >> different hardware and configs. > Java 6's public EOL is due,
Java 6 EOL : Feb 2013 (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html) It's not due, it's already dead ;-) > but commercial support is still there until 2016. Dec 2016. Most of our users will not pay for a commercial support, I'm afraid :-) > From a commercial side it doesn't make much sense to put effort (and money) > in a MINA 3 upgrade for only 2 years (MINA 3 release + development time and > you're are likely in the middle of 2014). > Besides a MINA 3 designed for Java 7 could bring much more efficiency and > some new features. +1 > What is the downside of sticking to an existing and stable MINA 2 until you > are ready to upgrade to Java 7? You'll have to test your application with > Java 7 nonetheless - a new MINA won't hurt much on testing efforts. > Downside for devs: MINA 2 needs to be supported a little longer. We will maintain MINA 2 for some more time. There are not so much effort to be put on this version anyway. (if we except the documentation...) > > Given a longer development time I would even suggest using Java 8. But it > will be most likely too cutting-edge for most needs. I'm not really sur Java 8 brings a lot of interesting features for MINA (Which is not the case for Java 7) > > btw: is there a current roadmap or target for MINA 3? Julien is trying hard to cut a first milstone, and is struggling with N&L files... I feel for him :-) -- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com
