Java 1.5 was EOL in 2009 by the looks of it. There are no security updates for this release. Supporting an EOL product with no security fixes can only affect the integrity of Tapestry and the containers that it is run in.
Java 1.6 is EOL November this year (2012) http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html On 02/05/2012, at 5:48 PM, Peter Stavrinides wrote: > + 1 > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dimitris Zenios" <dimitris.zen...@gmail.com> > To: "Tapestry users" <users@tapestry.apache.org> > Sent: Wednesday, 2 May, 2012 10:32:14 AM > Subject: Re: How do you feel about requiring JRE 1.6 for Tapestry 5.4? > > +1 from me also > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Markus Grell <tapes...@military.de> wrote: >> With Java 6 released end of 2006, I can't see any point in supporting an >> older release for a new Tapestry version. >> >> Markus >> >>> When in doubt, let's ask the community: would you object to requiring >>> JRE 1.6 for running Tapestry 5.4? So far, T5 has run on JRE 1.5 but >>> the time for requiring 1.6 will come at some point. Not necessarily yet - >>> we can likely work around this - but current Hibernate 4.x releases are >>> built with 1.6. >>> >>> Kalle >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
