On 8/27/14 5:32 PM, Gary Gregory wrote:
Hi All,
Now that DERBY-6213 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6213>
is in the books, is there any interest here in deprecating Java 6 in
favor of Java 7?
Gary
--
E-Mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> |
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition
<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/>
JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/>
Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/>
Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com
<http://garygregory.wordpress.com/>
Home: http://garygregory.com/
Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
Thanks for raising this issue, Gary. Oracle stopped creating public
releases of Java 6 last year:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html. However, Oracle
continues to provide new releases of Java 6 for customers who buy
support contracts. I can't find any information on IBM's commitment to
Java 6. Maybe one of the IBM engineers can comment.
In the interests of reducing code/testing complexity, I'd be happy to
deprecate support for Java 6. When we deprecate a platform, we generally
produce one last feature release for it. It is that last release which
announces the deprecation. If we followed that convention, then next
year's 10.12 release would still support Java 6. The first release to
drop Java 6 support would be 10.13, due out in 2016 if we keep to our
usual release cadence.
What do other people think?
Thanks,
-Rick
