On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Donald Woods wrote:
The time has come to make the hard decision -
Do we only build and certify Geronimo 2.2 on the Sun 1.6.0 JDK and
drop support for running on Java SE 5?
Pros:
- Reduce testing effort to one version of Java
- Allows us to use the JAXB 2.1, JAX-WS 2.1 and wsgen tools in the
JDK, instead of shipping those jars in our assemblies (and removes
some more Sun RI from our assemblies) :-)
- Keeps us current on the latest Java release
- All major platforms have a Java SE 6 solution:
Cons:
- Users will have to upgrade to Java SE 6 to run Geronimo 2.2
- Will require us to maintain the 2.1 branch during 2009 for any
users who want to stay on Java SE 5
I'm for moving to a Java SE 6 only runtime for Geronimo 2.2.
I'm not kean on the idea. Java SE 6 has not been out for that long,
relatively speaking and a lot of production environments will still be
on Java SE 5.
Regards,
Alan
