Apache Tika, the top consumer of the POI api requires jdk 1.5+. I'm afraid if we abandon jdk 1.5 it will be a compatibility breaker.
Personally, I'm all for getting rid of 1.5. If people still use it they don't care about software updates. 26 янв. 2014 г. 6:56 пользователь "Andreas Beeker" <[email protected]> написал: > Hi, > > I regularly need to workaround limitations in the jdk 1.5 api. > Sometimes this is not so straightforward, as with the latest svn commit, > which uses > NavigableSet features of 1.6. > > As the EOL of JDK 1.5 was already 4.5 years ago [1] and actually JDK 1.6 > is also already > not (supported) updated since a year, how about abandon the support for > 1.5 and switch > to 1.6? > > ... i know, this has been asked before [2], but this was nearly 4 years > ago, and of course > projects which still run under a 1.4/1.5 vm probably aren't so keen to > update to new > libraries anyways ... > > Andi. > > [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.poi.devel/18641/focus=18643 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
