Andrew Stevens wrote:
For those not remembering, we are waiting for Joerg to retract his veto
against switching to Java 1.5.
In the meantime the benefit of supporting Java 1.4 decreases each day
while the cost of doing so increases ...
/Daniel
Well, for what it's worth (which isn't much) I for one am glad Cocoon 2.2 still
supports JDK 1.4. It's finally looking like our US datacentre is getting their
act together so my team can plan to migrate our sites off Websphere 5.0 (JDK
1.3, and end-of-life'd about 9 months ago!) onto a more recent version.
However, the new version that they are willing to support is 6.0, which uses...
JDK 1.4
Big mistake. The performance improvements between 1.4 and java 5 are
pretty significant. java 6 is even better. Our Cocoon has been running
in production on 1.4 for quite some time and we are planning to upgrade
just for that reason.
We're already being pressured to ditch Cocoon in favour of a proprietary
in-house framework (which would be a shame IMO as Cocoon is a much better fit
with our XML-based content management system). Without 1.4 support, Cocoon
becomes a dead end for us with no upgrade path, which would make it harder to
justify continuing with it.
Hmm. My guess is that in your environment you won't be upgrading to 2.2
anytime soon anyway? The biggest negative I continue to face isn't
Cocoon itself, but the lack of any professional support here in the U.S.
I guess that makes us the few souls living in solitude :-)
Andrew.
