There are several aspects. In the language, I like try with with resources, type inference, and multi - catch clauses.
I am in a special situation in that I am working on a custom derby build for a special use case. Using one level of jdbc and java makes the whole task easier to develop, build and in general deal with. Gary <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Myrna van Lunteren <[email protected]> </div><div>Date:08/28/2014 14:31 (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: derbydev <[email protected]> </div><div>Subject: Re: Java 6 vs. 7 </div><div> </div>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
