Hi,
sorry for top-posting:
But please use the new thread for the discussion of dropping Java 5 and
Java 6 support for Windows.
Otherwise, it may happen that your arguement were lost for this discussion.
Thanks in advance,
Oliver.
On 07.08.2013 12:59, sebb wrote:
On 7 August 2013 11:55, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote:
On 7 August 2013 12:51, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7 August 2013 09:33, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote:
I'm deleting the quotes of the earlier discussion as it is not relevant
to my point here.
I have no experience of building with Java and care little about the
security holes, so I bow to the expertise of those who know better.
If changes are being made to the OpenOffice/Java interaction, would it
be possible that these be done in such a way that no matter whether
installed on a 32 or 64 bit windows, OpenOffice interfaced correctly with
the installed Java, so doing away with the requirement that a 32 bit Java
be installed.
+1
+1
AOO should work with what is installed, [though there is probably no
need to support Java 4 or earlier any more.]
Just because Java 5 or 6 is no longer current does not mean it is not
being used.
In particular, businesses tend to stay on older versions of Java (and
OS) until the cost of updating is less than the cost of not updating.
correct, but at the same time companies are typically security aware, and
java 6 (and below) have some serious know issues.
I would have thought that its possible to develop/built with java 7 and
still have java 5,6 as runtime environment, but looking at the code it does
not seem easy (we would have to get the java version, and use different API
calls).
Java is upwards compatible (except parts of JDBC).
So it should be possible to restrict the code to the Java 5 API and it
would then work on Java 6 and 7 and 8 etc.
rgds
jan I.
This would prevent many queries on the Forum of why OO doesn't work with
an installed Java.
--
Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
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