i am all for java 5 but not for java 6. regards, philipp
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>Since even Java 5 has reached EOL this month > > In that case, should we actually be looking at a move to Java 6? > > Daniel > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Jeremias Maerki > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'll have to ask my clients what the current situation is. Some of them >> are quite slow to move on. Since even Java 5 has reached EOL this month >> (notice that this is always Sun's EOL in terms of how support is handled), >> I guess there are not so many reasons to keep Java 1.4 up. From a >> developer's point of view the decision is clear. It's always the view >> from a larger company for whom it's more difficult to make a Java >> upgrade, that lets me act conservatively. But given on how broad a front >> the moves from Java 1.4 to 5 are happening, I'm a +0.9 for a switch to >> Java 5. ;-) Those still on Java 1.4 simply have to get into their gear >> and finally do their homework if they want to keep up with new releases. >> >> On 26.11.2009 22:40:10 Andreas Lehmkühler wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > what about upgrading to Java 5 with the upcoming 1.0 version? >> > >> > We haven't talked much about that, but I think we should. Jukka tried to >> start a >> > discussion on [1], but no one jumped in. A long time ago (august 2008) >> there was >> > already some discussion [2] and Jeremias mentioned that he still has to >> use java >> > 1.4. because of a customer who isn't able to upgrade his environment. >> > >> > I think everybody might know the advantages of upgrading to Java 5 >> > >> > - Java 1.4 reached EOL in october 2008 >> > - all those new java features like autoboxing, generics etc. >> > - third party libs used by pdfbox will upgrade/have upgraded to java 5 >> (e.g. lucene) >> > - there are some contributions to pdfbox using java 5 stuff, which have >> to be >> > converted before we can add them to the source >> > - ... >> > >> > So, what do you think about that? Jeremias do you still rely on java 1.4 >> > compliance, perhaps someone else? >> > >> > BR >> > Andreas Lehmkühler >> > >> > [1] http://markmail.org/message/aqvxuuz3yqx5327x >> > [2] http://markmail.org/thread/h4m5nw4bmz2nrciq >> >> >> >> >> Jeremias Maerki >> >> >
