If Banking Institutions are the reason then we should fork the tree to have two branches ala Firefox.
One that targets legacy systems and the other for moving the system forward. - Marc --- Bruce Atherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reinhard Poetz wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > That is a shame. If this were the only criterion, Cocoon will not be > able to use the features of Java 5 for 20 years or more. Think how > many > Cobol programmers were fully employed leading up to Y2K. I imagine > that > some banks are still using JVM 1.2 now (and I doubt that Cocoon 2.2 > is > compatible with that). > > I have faith that concern for ultra-conservative organizations isn't > the > only consideration the developers are using, though. So have they > decided what will finally allow a move to Java 5? Just so we know > when > we can look forward to it. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
