I'll consider before make Ofbiz 10.4 compatible with Java 5 if it worths the effort. Probably you'll found much easier upgrading your SO rather making Ofbiz compatible, but I'm not the right person to confirm that since my knowledge of how many Java 6 stuff are in the entire Ofbiz code is very little.
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Adrian Crum <adri...@hlmksw.com> wrote: > A couple of things I can think of off the top of my head - versions older > than 6 are no longer supported by Sun. Version 6 continues to improve on > performance - especially in garbage collection. > > I agree that OS upgrades are a pain, but the harsh reality is, you will > have to do it someday. > > -Adrian > > > On 8/17/2010 11:21 AM, Ruth Hoffman wrote: > >> Hi Patrick: >> >> My production server is running a version of the O.S. for which there is >> no production quality version of Java 1.6 available. So, in order to >> move to 1.6, I need to upgrade my server's OS, which is something I >> don't really want to deal with right now. My setup works fine. Never >> crashes and, whenever the power goes out or some other calamity happens, >> it reboots and OFBiz and the database come up automatically with no >> issues. >> >> So, much as I'd like to try out 1.6, it doesn't make good business sense >> for me. I'm also curious as to how many folks out there are running >> applications dependent on 1.6. I've been to a few bigger Java shops >> recently and none of them run 1.6. Some are still (happily) on 1.4. >> >> Regards, >> Ruth >> >> Patrick wrote: >> >>> Just curious what problems do you have with 1.6? >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Ruth Hoffman <rhoff...@aesolves.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All: >>>> Is there any interest in making OFBiz 10.4 (and all the 10.x) releases >>>> compatible with Java 1.5? Requiring 1.6 is a real show stopper for >>>> me. But >>>> I'm wondering if anyone else out there really cares at all about this? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Ruth Hoffman >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> -- ----- Jonatan Soto
