Until /very/ recently, the default JVM used to start java apps on mac os x was 1.5; 1.6 has been on macs for ages, but unless you use a mechanism where you can specify which VM you want (e.g. webstart), you'd get 1.5. Fortunately, at least today, any leopard user that has not got automatic updates turned off (Like 90% of all mac os x deployments out there have leopard with automatic updates on, so that's good) have 1.6 as a default.
There's still the Mac Os X 1.4 tiger folks, the folks with a 32-bit CPU, and the need to run with 32-bit libraries (such as *ALL* eclipse installations - if you're writing an eclipse plugin, do NOT USE 1.6 only features, or mac users have to jump through a lot of hoops to use your plugin), but that's more of a niche thing at this point. So, yes, just since this month, 1.6 is okay. Having said that, project lombok runs in 1.5 and 1.6, and I even replicated the SPI service loader mechanism which is 1.6 only to avoid a 1.6 dependency, because of that eclipse issue. On Aug 9, 11:05 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <vjosulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Personally, I'm still supporting Java 5 for a number of libraries > > (BetterBeansBinding, jrawio, Mistral) because Java 5 is not yet EOL for > > a couple of months ;-) but above all because I presume a lot of people > > will keep on using it for several time. At the moment I don't need > > specific Java 6 features for those projects and running "matrix" tests > > with Hudson makes not too hard to maintain this stuff - with the > > exception of a specific problem. > > > For my own applications I've moved to Java 6 several months ago. > > I'm in much the same position. > 1.6 at home, since it came out. > 1.6 on our departmental UAT server since Friday (2009-08-07) but > without any development targeting it yet (chicken and egg situation). > 1.5 on our departmental live server (and all the other servers in the > company that I'm aware of) for the forseeable future. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
