Eh... do you know how perversely conservative FM is? :) It's the coming FreeMarker 2.3.24 that will raise the minimum Java version from 1.4 to 5. Before that, 2.3.23, which was about 6 months ago, has raised it from 1.2(!) to 1.4.
(Just so we don't look crazy... why Java 5? There was nothing critical for us in 6 yet (OK, number rounding modes, but I just call that via some conditional linking). Also Spring 3.x requires Java 5, hence if we want 2.3.24 to be part of a 3.x maintenance release, it can't require any higher.) Sunday, October 25, 2015, 5:23:31 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > Frankly, I would have dropped support for servlet 2.3 a while ago. > Same for Java 5. Heck Log4j just made the minimum version Java 7. > > Ralph > >> On Oct 21, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We will need to call some Servlet 2.4 API-s, and I can solve it >> reflection and such, and by complication the build.xml a bit further. >> I just wonder if it worths it. Here's a bit of Servlet history: >> >> Servlet 2.3 August 2001 J2EE 1.3, J2SE 1.2 JSP 1.2 >> Servlet 2.4 November 2003 J2EE 1.4, J2SE 1.3 JSP 2.0 >> Servlet 2.5 September 2005 JavaEE 5, JavaSE 5 JSP 2.1 >> >> 2.3.24 has already raised minimum Java version to 5, and minimum JSP >> version to 2.0 (that's the pair of Servlet 2.4). These had to be done, >> pretty much. Requiring 2.4 is not a must have, but I wonder if keeping >> it worths the complication... >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Daniel Dekany >> >> > > > -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
