Joerg Heinicke wrote:
On 25.09.2007 16:20 Uhr, Felix Knecht wrote:
May I ask why can't just make a jump and goto java 1.6?
What's the benefit of using not the latest version - do any contracts
exists that we can't jump over a java version?
And what's the use of it? I just don't get it why a framework should
set restrictions on its user base. While nothing prevents you to use 1.6.
I don't necessarily agree with setting 1.6 as the minimum myself. Mostly
because it doesn't add much over 1.5. However, the language features of
1.5 are worth it. For example, I would love to replace some pieces of
code that require synchronized blocks with java.util.concurent. I would
love to be able to specify the object types on Maps and Lists. It just
makes for better code. I'm sure we could find a way to take advantage
of NIO if we really thought about it. But we can't do any of that
because we are stuck at 1.4.
Ralph
