Hi,
I don't really see a lot of benefit we can get from requesting Java 6
for the server. I'm not really sure it worths that pain for our users to
impose them this move.
The situation is that even if Sun/Oracle tries to squeeze money out of
their users by making them pay for support once the EOL is reached, they
won't move all their production applications to Java 6. Java 5 is
probably an asset we have to stand on.
For studio, the situation is a bit different, as it runs locally, and
it's not really an issue to ask for a more recent JVM. However, ask
yourself if this move will bring any advantage...
Regarding the NIO/SSL issues, sadly, those problems are existing with
Java 5, AFAIK. There are addressed by the MINA project (there is a
branch with an experimental solution, we still have to check if the
patch works well).
Jesse McConnell wrote:
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
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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,
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Ersin Er
The Apache Directory Project
Committer, PMC
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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
directory.apache.org
