Certainly is "possible", but what we find is that naturally many enterprises are slow to upgrade in general. This is a little frustrating for us on the JDK front and even more so on the browser front (yes we still support ie6).
I think that in order to increase enterprise adoption of OpenSocial we need to keep the barrier to entry low -- in this case it means JDK 5 compatibility. Many enterprise clients just started using JDK 5 maybe just 2 yrs ago. - Mike -----Original Message----- From: Henry Saputra <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:31:49 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VOTE] Shindig 3.0 targeting Java 6 I believe you are offering Shindig as separate portlet in Liferay portal. Would it be acceptable that for customers that want to support OpenSocial (via Shindig) should be willing to upgrade to Java6? - Henry On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Michael Young <[email protected]> wrote: > Not an easy question to answer, but basically we have a lot of enterprise > customers who run older app servers like Websphere 6 and they will not be > able to move to Java 6 for some time. We will eventually move but not in at > least the next 2 years or so. > > - Mike > -- > Follow us on Twitter: liferay > > On Dec 15, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Paul Lindner wrote: > >> Any idea when you might end-of-life java 1.5 support? >> >> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Michael Young >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> -1. >>> >>> We need will need Java 5 compatibility for some time forward. >>> >>> - Mike >>> -- >>> Follow us on Twitter: liferay >>> >>> On Dec 15, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Paul Lindner wrote: >>> >>>> Let's do this the apache way >>>> >>>> vote open 72h >>>> >>>> [ ] +1 I support Shindig 3.0 targeting Java 1.6 >>>> [ ] +0 I don't care either way >>>> [ ] -1 Stop, please don't! I need java 1.5 support. >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Paul Lindner -- [email protected] -- linkedin.com/in/plindner > > -- Thanks, Henry
