Sorry, I was away on vacation last week.
Does anyone know of technical reason why we can't move to Java SE 6 and
use the JAXB/JAX-WS implementation provided in the JDK?
-Donald
Jason Warner wrote:
Have we come to a consensus on this yet? Perhaps we should put it to a
vote? The discussion has died down, but there doesn't seem to be a
clear "winner."
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Donald Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I'm not proposing that we put any checks or hard stops in the server
to prevent starting on Java SE 5, but I would like to remove
JAXB/JAXWS 2.1 as it comes in Java SE 6 and use the wsgen in the
JDKs instead of shipping some CXF code for Axis2 users.
Free Java SE 5 support/updates end next year, so I don't see why
you'd want to continue supporting it in a 2.2 release that is
targeted as a main release stream for 2009.
-Donald
Kevan Miller wrote:
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
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~Jason Warner
