We still have quite a few projects that depend on Java 6 and were just about to start migrating these from log4j to log4j2. I guess we’ll have to wait and see how this discussion plays out…
With kind regards Piers Uso Walter <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Am 01.12.2014 um 07:56 schrieb Gary Gregory <[email protected]>: > > Just to play devil's advocate... I'm not so sure on the laggard view. If I > start a new project today, it is a Java 8 project or maybe a java 7 project > if some kit breaks on 8. For my major existing project that recently moved > from java 6 to 7, I gave up upgrading from log4j 1 to 2 because we depend on > to many log4j guts (configuration and custom appender). So for me, java 7 is > the min and some folks in our company are starting to discuss making java 8 > the min just mitigate some real or perceived security issues. > > Gary > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Ralph Goers <[email protected]> > Date:12/01/2014 01:13 (GMT-05:00) > To: Log4J Developers List <[email protected]> > Cc: > Subject: Re: Java 7? > > We have had this discussion before. There are some components that should be > leaders and some that should be laggards when it comes to upgrading. My > opinion is that Log4j needs to be at the tail end in terms of dropping > support for older Java versions. > > Ralph > >> On Nov 30, 2014, at 11:05 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hm, one of those blog shows Java 7 ~ 80 % and Java 6 at ~20 %. That fits the >> general 80/20 rule for me ;-) >> >> Gary >> >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Ralph Goers <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Or, I guess, when one of these surveys shows Java 6 is down below 10%. >> Neither of these is extremely current, but it is interesting to note that >> the second showed Java 6’s usage actually increase over the last several >> months. I can’t imagine why that would be. >> http://adtmag.com/blogs/watersworks/2014/05/2014-java-survey.aspx >> <http://adtmag.com/blogs/watersworks/2014/05/2014-java-survey.aspx> >> http://blog.jelastic.com/2014/05/20/software-stacks-market-share-april-2014/ >> <http://blog.jelastic.com/2014/05/20/software-stacks-market-share-april-2014/> >> >> FWIW, I am still using Java 6 at work for some things so I have no interest >> in not being able to use Log4j 2 in them. They should all be upgraded in the >> next few months. >> >> Ralph >> >> >>> On Nov 30, 2014, at 10:32 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> November 2015. >>> >>> Ralph >>> >>>> On Nov 30, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I just had to do some refactoring to account for not being able to use a >>>> Java 7 multi-catch. >>>> >>>> I would be OK to release 2.2 ASAP and then make Java 7 the minimum to take >>>> advantage to Java 7 features like multi-catch and try-with resources. >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>>> Gary >>>> >>>> -- >>>> E-Mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> | >>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >>>> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >>>> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >>>> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >>>> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com <http://garygregory.wordpress.com/> >>>> Home: http://garygregory.com/ <http://garygregory.com/> >>>> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory <http://twitter.com/GaryGregory> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> E-Mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> | >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com <http://garygregory.wordpress.com/> >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ <http://garygregory.com/> >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory <http://twitter.com/GaryGregory>
