Reinhard Poetz wrote:
On [EMAIL PROTECTED] we have started to dicuss whether we can make Java 5
becoming the minimum requirement for Cocoon 2.2. Note that this
discussion is completly unrelated to Cocoon 2.1 which needs JDK 1.3.
The arguments pro Java 5 which was officially releases almost 2 years
ago, are the support of generics, annotations, build-in JMX, simpler
loop syntax, and many small improvements to a lot of classes.
As Cocoon 2.2 hasn't been released yet, there is no existing user base.
Hence people are not forced to use Java 5 just because of a new patch
release. We plan to do a release based on the 2.1.X branch within the
next months, which might be the last one of this series.
The question now is whether making Java 5 the minimum requirement is a
hurdle for people who plan to migrate or not.
Your opinion is appreciated!
Many thanks to everybody, who has participated so far, for your feedback.
On [EMAIL PROTECTED] we voted about it and the voting proposal was rejected. The main
reason is that large organizations (e.g. banks) are years behind in their usage
of new JDK releases and that we haven't found _the_ feature of Java 5 that
justifies the switch.
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Reinhard Pötz Independent Consultant, Trainer & (IT)-Coach
{Software Engineering, Open Source, Web Applications, Apache Cocoon}
web(log): http://www.poetz.cc
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