I thought there was an earlier discussion about some component using new security features of Java SE 6, but can't find that thread now....
Maybe Shawn can give more details as to why we should consider the move. -Donald On 6/17/10 12:26 PM, Kevan Miller wrote: > > On Jun 17, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Rick McGuire wrote: > >> On 6/17/2010 11:20 AM, Donald Woods wrote: >>> I'd be fine with requiring Java SE 6 for 2.2.1 and follow-on releases. >>> >> >> Is that even allowed by the Java EE 5 certification rules? > > Yes, but I don't think it really matters. I don't think we have any real > motivation to move to Java 6 -- there aren't Java 6 features that we're > planning on taking advantage of... It's simply someone "built" on Java 6 and > found that they had problems subsequently "running" on Java 5. > > IMO, we should be building on Java 5 (maintaining support for Java 5), if > users want to run on Java 6, that's fine... > > --kevan
