Re: [VOTE] Sunsetting support for JVM 1.4

[Lance Andersen - Oracle]

+1 On Jul 5, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Rick Hillegas wrote: +1 On 7/5/11 6:05 AM, Rick Hillegas wrote: Please vote on the following proposed policy for supported platforms. The polls close at 5:00 pm San Francisco time on Tuesday July 19. o The 10.8 family of releases will be the last family supporting JVM 1.4. o Starting with 10.9, Derby will no longer support JVM 1.4. o This means that 10.9 will not be tested on JVM 1.4. o This also means that Java 5 language features can be used in client code, network server code, and in the embedded JDBC classes which are not loaded when running at the JSR 169 level. o Release notes for the 10.9 family will claim that we support the following JDBC levels on the following platforms:   - JSR 169 on CDC/FP 1.1   - JDBC 3.0 on Java 5   - JDBC 4.1 on Java 6 and Java 7 Lance Andersen| Principal Member of Technical Staff | +1.781.442.2037 Oracle Java Engineering  1 Network Drive  Burlington, MA 01803 lance.ander...@oracle.com