+1 for moving to at least 1.5 Bob
-----Original Message----- From: Patrick Wright <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 9:25 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: sketches On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Christopher Dolan <[email protected]> wrote: > Honest question: considering that Sun end-of-lifed Java 1.5 back in > October 2009, what's the value in continuing to support the Java 1.4 > platform in River? We discussed this on the list awhile back. I was of the opinion that in Jini was oriented towards communication between all sorts of Java-enabled devices, including high-end servers on the one end and mobile and embedded devices on the other. Hence if it were important to the community to support the SDK on devices that didn't include 1.5 features, we should continue to support 1.4. However, the discussion on that thread indicated there weren't really strong advocates for keeping 1.4 support. I was raising it more as an item to discuss and make a decision about, specifically regarding Jini compatibility across the wider Java VM landscape; we ourselves use Jini in a server environment, already 1.6 across the board for several years now and low-end devices aren't in our game plan at all. I personally think that the concurrency libraries in 1.5 are a good reason to move to 1.5 as a minimum. And personally I'm in favor of 1.6 now that 1.5 has been EOL'd. Patrick
