Hi, I looked but cannot find any official EOS statements or dates for Java 6 from IBM.
I found that Java 5 by IBM had a EOS(or perhaps EOL?) in 2009 - just like Oracle did; which does not imply a commitment regarding Java 6, however. Either way, I think it's fair to deprecate Java 6 in a future feature release - I like Rick's proposal. Was there some specific functionality that is of concern/interest here? Myrna On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Rick Hillegas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
