The trouble is asking contributors ( who matter more than users in this case) to try and find a copy of Java 5.
This is not a matter of latest and greatest we fell off that train along time ago ( causing a few private forks). Java 5 as a QA target is getting increasingly expensive. Jody On 07/06/2011, at 7:51 PM, Joachim Van der Auwera <[email protected]> wrote: > Whether or not to drop support for Java5 is something I would personally > attack from a different point of view. Are there users out there who are > still running on Java5? Are there potential users who would be unable to > use GeoTools 8 is it does not support Java5? And very important, is > there something which would be impossible to do in GeoTools 8 because of > Java5 support? > > In general, while developers always want to use the latest and greatest, > there are companies who have very strict policies about the hardware and > software which is allowed to be used. Some of these companies may only > allow application servers which only work on Java5 (similarly, this is > also one of the main reasons why IE6 is still so "popular"). > > The issue of not being able to download Java5 is less important imho. > Most developers will just develop in Java6 and the compiler/ide/CI > server will complain when using Java6+ constructs. > > Kind regards, > Joachim > > On 06/02/2011 04:52 PM, Andrea Aime wrote: >> Hi, >> first off, sorry for cross posting on GeoTools and GeoServer devel, >> the topic is however >> of interest of both communities. >> >> I'm wondering if times are finally mature to switch GeoTolols and >> GeoServer trunk to JDK 1.6 as >> the minimum requirement (just trunk though). >> >> The rationale being that J2EE 6 has been out a while, JDK 1.5 is end of life >> and hard to grab, and JDK 7 is going to be released shortly (July I think). >> >> Not switching 2.1.x series to JDK 6 will give people stuck on JDK 1.5 some >> 6-12 months more of support. >> >> Also, according to this, jdk 6 will reach its end of life next year >> already, meaning >> we will have only 1 year of that jdk in supported state before its end of >> life >> (assuming we switch soon): >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html >> >> Opinions? >> >> Cheers >> Andrea >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content > authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image > Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
