Don't worry we're not going to switch until JDK 1.5 is the standard. As Craig mentioned, that's a long ways off from now.
Sean On 7/22/06, Ryan Wynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/19/06, Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok this might be a bit drastic but if we're going to do it, lets do it > before the first stable release. I propose we require JDK 1.5 for > shale. Please don't. We depend on shale in WebSphere Portal 5.1 which is only 1.4. If you make it require 1.5 we're screwed, back to using jsp w/myfaces instead of clay html views and shale/myfaces. My reasoning is that JDK 1.5 will be the defacto JDK standard > long before JSF is the framework standard. > > I consider our work on Shale to be building for the future for the > masses - and providing cutting edge stuff for the adventurous. So if > you are using Shale now you are probably OK with JDK 1.5. If we agree > to this, I suggest we rename shale-tiger to shale-annotations which is > more descriptive. > > Anyways, I'm sure there are some good reasons for keeping it JDK 1.4 > but it might not hurt to revist that reasoning now that we're our own > TLP and we're approaching the first release. > > Sean >
