On Nov 7, 2008, at 11:33 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
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.
Personally I'm in the same boat... One major reason for me is that
Java SE 6 isn't really all that well supported on Mac OS X yet, while
the platform does have an implementation, its slow and buggy... which
does cause problems for many Geronimo developers.
But also, IMO there isn't anything ubersignificant in SE 6 that G
needs to function. The javax.script stuff would be nice, though we
don't really need that at the moment. The java.io.Console stuff would
be good too... but again, not critical for the functionality or
operation.
While I wish Mac OS X (and the rest of the world) would hurry up and
get things kick ass optimal on SE 6 right the *uck now, the reality is
that it isn't and unless there is a significant reason to make SE 6
the baseline java version I will strongly push back.
--jason
