I'll have to ask my clients what the current situation is. Some of them are quite slow to move on. Since even Java 5 has reached EOL this month (notice that this is always Sun's EOL in terms of how support is handled), I guess there are not so many reasons to keep Java 1.4 up. From a developer's point of view the decision is clear. It's always the view from a larger company for whom it's more difficult to make a Java upgrade, that lets me act conservatively. But given on how broad a front the moves from Java 1.4 to 5 are happening, I'm a +0.9 for a switch to Java 5. ;-) Those still on Java 1.4 simply have to get into their gear and finally do their homework if they want to keep up with new releases.
On 26.11.2009 22:40:10 Andreas Lehmkühler wrote: > Hi, > > what about upgrading to Java 5 with the upcoming 1.0 version? > > We haven't talked much about that, but I think we should. Jukka tried to > start a > discussion on [1], but no one jumped in. A long time ago (august 2008) there > was > already some discussion [2] and Jeremias mentioned that he still has to use > java > 1.4. because of a customer who isn't able to upgrade his environment. > > I think everybody might know the advantages of upgrading to Java 5 > > - Java 1.4 reached EOL in october 2008 > - all those new java features like autoboxing, generics etc. > - third party libs used by pdfbox will upgrade/have upgraded to java 5 (e.g. > lucene) > - there are some contributions to pdfbox using java 5 stuff, which have to be > converted before we can add them to the source > - ... > > So, what do you think about that? Jeremias do you still rely on java 1.4 > compliance, perhaps someone else? > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/aqvxuuz3yqx5327x > [2] http://markmail.org/thread/h4m5nw4bmz2nrciq Jeremias Maerki
