IMO, the OASIS SCA Java APIs and annotations don't have hard dependencies on JDK 1.6. I think the spec can recommend JDK 1.6 instead of mandating it. The minimum level of JDK should be decided by the runtime.
For Tuscany, we had a discussion before to understand if we should make 1.6 the default and have a profile for 1.5 to drag in additional dependencies. AFAIK, the tuscany code can be compiled with JDK 1.5 even though most of us developers are using JDK 1.6 Thanks, Raymond From: Mark Combellack Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:40 AM To: d...@tuscany.apache.org ; user@tuscany.apache.org Subject: [2.x] Survey: What is the minimum JDK version that the OASIS SCA-J Specifications should support JDK 1.5 or JDK 1.6? Hi, On one of the recent OASIS SCA-J calls, there were discussions on the minimum JDK version that the OASIS SCA-J Specification should require. Currently the specification has an unclear statement as to whether the minimum is JDK 1.4 or JDK 1.5. There is an open issue [1] for this to clarify this to require JDK 1.5 or above. One issue with JDK 1.5 is that support for it is being withdrawn by Sun (i.e. reaches End of Service Life) on 30th October 2009 [2] As a result, should the OASIS SCA Specification require a minimum of JDK 1.6? As Tuscany is one of the major implementers of the OASIS SCA-J Specification, I am interested in people's opinion so the questions are as follows: 1) What is the minimum JDK version that the SCA specification should require? a) JDK 1.5 or above b) JDK 1.6 or above c) Other - please provide comments 2) If the SCA Specification required JDK 1.6 or above: a) I would be unable to continue using SCA unless it supports JDK 1.5 as I am unable to run with JDK 1.6 b) I would have to upgrade to JDK 1.6 for our SCA Applications but we could do it. c) It would cause me no problems to use SCA with JDK 1.6 Note: The results from this survey do not directly affect the decision on which JDK version the OASIS SCA-J specification will require. However, it may be a useful indication of which JDK versions are used by the current users of Tuscany. Thanks, Mark [1] http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/JAVA-132 [2] http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp
