On Nov 7, 2008, at 12:04 AM, 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?
Um. What do you mean "drop support"? We've only announced
"certification" on a particular Java SE level, in the past. We've
documented minimum SE platform (e.g. Java EE 5 is hard to do on 1.4).
I would be against some sort of explicit Java SE 5 runtime check that
would fail server startup. If a user shows up with a Java SE 5 issue,
I'd expect that we'd be trying to fix their problem, regardless of our
"support statement"
I have no issue with performing certification testing, only, on Java
Se 6 (but would also be happy to see some Java SE 5 runs...).
However, I don't see any reason to discourage users from using Java SE
5, if that's what they want...
Pros:
- Reduce testing effort to one version of Java
Fine, but w/ testing hardware, may not be a big issue to test on both...
- 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) :-)
I thought we were going to be picking up tools from CXF -- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4351
Would that resolve your issues with Java SE 5?
--kevan
