Sunsetting support for Derby on JVM 1.4

[Rick Hillegas]

No-one on the user list has objected to sunsetting support for JVM 1.4 
starting with Derby 10.9. There is still some interest in supporting 
small devices on CDC/FP 1.1. Sunsetting support for JVM 1.4 would mean 
that we would stop running regression tests on that platform (starting 
with Derby 10.9) and we would not spend a lot of effort chasing problems 
on that platform.

Because we would continue supporting CDC/FP 1.1, we would not be able to 
modernize the bulk of Derby code to take advantage of language features 
introduced by Java 5. These features include enums, annotations, and 
generics.

I would like to move ahead with sunsetting support for JVM 1.4. I'm 
happy to call a formal vote to ratify this change if people think that 
would be useful. What are your thoughts?

Thanks,
-Rick