Suggestion: "Apache cTAKES requires Java level 1.6; it has been tested with Sun Java SDK v6.0, IBM Java 6.0, and OpenJDK 6.0. Running the Eclipse plugin tooling for UIMA requires you start Eclipse. The supported platforms are: Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX and Mac OS X. Other platforms and Java (1.7 or 1.8) implementations should work, but have not been significantly tested."
My idea is simply to adopt/adopt the UIMA "supported platforms" statement specifically for cTAKES . http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/uimaj/trunk/README "Apache UIMA requires Java level 1.5; it has been tested with Sun Java SDK v5.0 and v6.0, and IBM Java 6.0. Running the Eclipse plugin tooling for UIMA requires you start Eclipse using a Java 1.5 or later, as well. The supported platforms are: Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX and Mac OS X. Other platforms and Java (1.5+) implementations should work, but have not been significantly tested. Many of the scripts in the /bin directory invoke Java. They use the value of the environment variable, JAVA_HOME, to locate the Java to use; if it is not set, they invoke "java" expecting to find an appropriate Java in your PATH." On Feb 13, 2013, at 12:16 AM, Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/13/2013 12:38 AM, Andy McMurry wrote: >> I suggest changing the Java supported versions from "JDK 1.6+" to the UIMA >> supported versions (minus JDK 1.5). >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/uimaj/trunk/README >> >> Worth noting that Java 1.6 is facing end of life and Java 1.8 would likely >> be very experimental. >> (Unless of course cTakes is been thoroughly tested on Java 1.7 and 1.8 ) > > Why do you think it should be switched back to 1.5? Java is backward > compatible, cTAKES should > run fine on 1.7 or 1.8 when its out. > > Do you have to run on 1.5 in your production system? > > Jörn
