Hi, > For the latter one, that is, supporting JDK as lower as possible, I think > differently. 1) Maintaining lower JDK compatibility imposes potentially fewer > constraints for application developers, as is obviously beneficial to the > diverse community 2) For common and client modules, there is no must-have > features that exclusively exist in JDK 7+; JDK 5, IMHO, should be fine.
Oracle has stopped releasing public security updates for earlier versions of Java. So if you do offer support for earlier versions you may want to note their may be potential security issues in the release notes. Thanks, Justin
