On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:10 PM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any opinions on having Java SE 6 be the default for the Tuscany 2.0 stream? > > A benefit of doing this is that a lot of the basic dependencies we use are > included in Java SE 6 by default so we wouldn't need to include all those > dependencies separately so we'd look much smaller and lightweight. Tuscany > 2.0 would still work with Java SE 5 you'd just need to include the extra > dependencies manually which we'd need to document how to do. So its weighing > up if the extra burden and complexity for those Java SE 5 users is out > weighed by the smallness for the Java SE 6 users. I think it could be worth > doing. > > FYI, Geronimo is having a similar discussion - > http://apache.markmail.org/message/fskiwsxsb7vfbpnk. One comment there is > that "J2SE 5.0 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition > period. The EOL transition period began April 8th, 2008 and will complete > October 30th, 2009, when J2SE 5.0 will have reached its End of Service Life > (EOSL)" > > ...ant > > Ant, are you building with JDK6 at the moment? Simon
