if your using some of the nio bits and pieces in apacheds there are some outstanding issues that sun has said they won't be fixing in 1.6..we maintain a list of them here:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/JDK1.6+Problems if your not using any of those bits then I don't see any problems...though I thought I read that someone had ported some part of ads to mina a while back, not sure which parts though, I just lurk on these lists anymore. :) cheers, jesse -- jesse mcconnell [email protected] On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 17:02, Ersin ER <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The question is simple: are we considering Java 6 as the minimum required > JVM version for ApacheDS 2.0? > > Java 5 has recently reached end of service life (at least at Sun): > http://java.sun.com/products/archive/eol.policy.html > > Although Java 6 does not bring many features that are critical for ApacheDS, > it would at least be a more modern JVM. And of course I am especially > interested in javax.scripting APIs for the SP subsystem (It needs a serious > review). Also some other related improvements have been introduced for JMX, > Annotations, Security. See http://java.sun.com/javase/6/features.jsp for > more details. > > After JVM has been open-sourced and integrated into all Linux distributions > Java 6 has been mainstream IMO. > > However if you have any concerns regarding sticking with Java 5, just tell > them please. > > Regards, > > -- > Ersin Er > The Apache Directory Project > Committer, PMC >
