We don't force any Tomcat or Maven version beyond a minimum that has been shown to work.
Cheers, Scott On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Misagh Moayyed <mmoay...@unicon.net> wrote: > I am in favor of project requirements somewhat driving organizations to > upgrade. I was even hoping initially that we might start out with JDK7 as a > minimum. True that no compelling features require the use of JDK7 (That I > know of, there may be some!) but with JDK6 EOL around the corner, maybe the > next CAS release would specify the requirement for a platform still in > support going forward. **** > > ** ** > > One example that comes to mind is, the new watch service and notifications > API in JDK7 would have come in handy for building a version of the service > registry that is externalized to a file and reloaded on change. (Though > Spring offers similar support in the area and does the job quite well)**** > > ** ** > > P.S: we also may want to think about the Tomcat and Maven requirements. I > think we are set at Tomcat5 and Maven2, as the docs currently suggest. *** > * > > ** ** > > Regards, **** > > *-*Misagh* > > * > > ** ** > > *From:* Scott Battaglia [mailto:scott.battag...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 01, 2012 11:43 AM > > *To:* cas-dev@lists.jasig.org > *Subject:* Re: [cas-dev] Next CAS release + JDK 6**** > > ** ** > > If we're looking to use our position as away to push people to upgrade > their EOL-ed stuff, than I am for making Java 6 the minimum (i.e. some > organizations won't upgrade until something forces them too). **** > > ** ** > > I typically look at it from the perspective of what is in 1.6 (or 1.7) > that is helpful enough to us at the development team to enforce some > minimum on the deployers. I didn't see anything compelling enough in a 1.6 > API for us that made it worth it to force a higher minimum.**** > > ** ** > > Cheers,**** > > Scott**** > > ** ** > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Dmitriy Kopylenko < > dmitriy.kopyle...@gmail.com> wrote:**** > > Yes, so? :-)**** > > ** ** > > Java 5 is EOL for a long time and Java 6 EOL is here. So, I personally see > no reason to support "ancient" versions.**** > > ** ** > > Cheers,**** > > D. **** > > ** ** > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Scott Battaglia <scott.battag...@gmail.com> > wrote:**** > > Isn't that what this thread is supposed to be discussing?**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Dmitriy Kopylenko < > dmitriy.kopyle...@gmail.com> wrote:**** > > The Wiki is updated stating that minimum JDK for CAS 4.x will be 1.6: > https://wiki.jasig.org/display/CASUM/Java+Versions**** > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Scott Battaglia <scott.battag...@gmail.com> > wrote:**** > > If it doesn't say 1.5 or higher, than it should be corrected. Its > intended to say 1.5 or higher.**** > > ** ** > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Misagh Moayyed <mmoay...@unicon.net> > wrote:**** > > Not aware of any specific language features devs might need, but given the > major coming release I think it’s a good time to up the version requirement > and anticipate the need, so to speak. Perhaps the word “requirement” is not > the best phrasing. What I have in mind mostly falls down to the level of > “Does CAS run or support JDK6 and above?” The official wording that CAS > requires 1.5 sort of gives the impression that if folks proceed with a > later java version, the upgrade will break something in CAS. **** > > **** > > *-*Misagh**** > > **** > > *From:* Scott Battaglia > [mailto:scott.battag...@gmail.com<scott.battag...@gmail.com>] > > *Sent:* Monday, July 30, 2012 2:39 PM > *To:* cas-dev@lists.jasig.org > *Subject:* Re: [cas-dev] Next CAS release + JDK 6**** > > **** > > Is there a compelling feature that would make us want to require 1.6?**** > > On Jul 30, 2012 5:09 PM, "Misagh Moayyed" <mmoay...@unicon.net> wrote:**** > > Team, **** > > Given the next major CAS release in planning, I wanted to propose that we > up the JDK requirement for CAS from the 5 to 6. As far as I know, there > aren’t any particular changes in the codebase that depend on JDK5 > specifically and we at Unicon have been doing CAS deployments based on the > JDK6 platform with much success. (I could possibly safely assume that most > other adopters are already on JDK6, if not later). **** > > **** > > I think switching the platform requirement to 6 at the time of a major > release would be a reasonable. Feedback is welcome :)**** > > **** > > Regards,**** > > *-*Misagh**** > > **** > > -- > You are currently subscribed to cas-dev@lists.jasig.org as: > scott.battag...@gmail.com > > **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-dev**** > > -- > You are currently subscribed to cas-dev@lists.jasig.org as: > mmoay...@unicon.net**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-dev**** > > -- > You are currently subscribed to cas-dev@lists.jasig.org as: > scott.battag...@gmail.com > > **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-dev**** > > ** ** > > -- > You are currently subscribed to cas-dev@lists.jasig.org as: > dmitriy.kopyle...@gmail.com**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > > > **** > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-dev**** > > ** ** > > -- > You are currently subscribed to cas-dev@lists.jasig.org as: > scott.battag...@gmail.com > > **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-dev**** > > ** ** > > -- > You are currently subscribed to cas-dev@lists.jasig.org as: > dmitriy.kopyle...@gmail.com > > **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-dev**** > > ** ** > > -- > You are currently subscribed to cas-dev@lists.jasig.org as: > scott.battag...@gmail.com > > **** > > ** ** > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-dev**** > > ** ** > > -- > You are currently subscribed to cas-dev@lists.jasig.org as: > mmoay...@unicon.net > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-dev**** > > -- > You are currently subscribed to cas-dev@lists.jasig.org as: > scott.battag...@gmail.com > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-dev > > -- You are currently subscribed to cas-dev@lists.jasig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-dev
