[PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-08 Thread Danny Angus
A discussion on the Mailet-api list about annotations has started to look at the possibility of requiring java 5 for James. WDYT? I would be cautiously in favour of this as long as no-one knows of any real situations where 1.4 is the newest available version. depending on whether this proposal

Re: [PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-08 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Danny Angus wrote: A discussion on the Mailet-api list about annotations has started to look at the possibility of requiring java 5 for James. WDYT? I would be cautiously in favour of this as long as no-one knows of any real situations where 1.4 is the newest available version. depending on wh

Re: [PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-08 Thread Norman Maurer
+1 As soon as we drop backward compatiblity. bye Norman Danny Angus schrieb: > A discussion on the Mailet-api list about annotations has started to > look at the possibility of requiring java 5 for James. > > WDYT? > > I would be cautiously in favour of this as long as no-one knows of any > real

Re: [PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-08 Thread Bernd Fondermann
We should continue to make sure James is running with Java versions > 1.4 And I am +1 for a future version of the mailet engine to require Java 5. About requiring Java 5 for the Server, I don't know. Why should the Server require Java 5 if it really does not use any J5 specifics and only one of it

Re: [PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-08 Thread Stefano Bagnara
Bernd Fondermann wrote: We should continue to make sure James is running with Java versions > 1.4 And I am +1 for a future version of the mailet engine to require Java 5. About requiring Java 5 for the Server, I don't know. Why should the Server require Java 5 if it really does not use any J5 spe

Re: [PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-08 Thread Bernd Fondermann
On 1/8/07, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bernd Fondermann wrote: > We should continue to make sure James is running with Java versions > 1.4 > And I am +1 for a future version of the mailet engine to require Java 5. > About requiring Java 5 for the Server, I don't know. Why should th

Re: [PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-08 Thread Danny Angus
On 1/8/07, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know how many users was on Jdk 1.3 for outdated j2ee servers 1 year after java 5 has been released? We were. I don't know of others. d. - To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: [PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-08 Thread Serge Knystautas
On 1/8/07, Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A discussion on the Mailet-api list about annotations has started to look at the possibility of requiring java 5 for James. +1 -- Serge Knystautas Lokitech >> software . strategy . design >> http://www.lokitech.com p. 301.656.5501 e. [EMAIL PRO

RE: [PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> A discussion on the Mailet-api list about annotations has started to > look at the possibility of requiring java 5 for James. For what? Are we going to do this for trunk therefore meaning that the only releasable code will require JSE 5, since any meaningful changes to anything other than trunk

Re: [PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-13 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 1/12/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A discussion on the Mailet-api list about annotations has started to > look at the possibility of requiring java 5 for James. For what? Are we going to do this for trunk therefore meaning that the only releasable code will require JSE 5,

Re: [PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-13 Thread Danny Angus
On 1/13/07, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i suspect that given good modularization, this choice could be made on a per-component basis whilst the core remained lowest common denominator JVM. james would then still run on older JVMs with small changes to the configuration files

RE: [PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
robert burrell donkin wrote: > i suspect that given good modularization, this choice could be made on > a per-component basis whilst the core remained lowest common > denominator JVM. james would then still run on older JVMs with small > changes to the configuration files. +1 That was the propos

Re: [PROPOSAL] - James to require jdk 1.5.x +

2007-01-15 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 1/15/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: > i suspect that given good modularization, this choice could be made on > a per-component basis whilst the core remained lowest common > denominator JVM. james would then still run on older JVMs with small > cha