On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Kent R. Spillner<sl4...@zerosphere.org> wrote: > Howdy- > > >> I'll go see if google can tell me about the lifespan of >> Java 5. > > > About 10 weeks. :)
That's Sun's support expiration, which has very little, if anything, to do with the lifespan of Java 5. Large enterprises aren't going to switch to a new Java version just because Sun stops supporting the one they're using. The company I work for, for example, has hundreds of products (no, I'm not kidding) built on Java 5. Switching to Java 6 or 7 will be a very large effort for us, and not one we'll undertake lightly. And new products will still be based on Java 5 for now, since that's what our platform is built on today. There were large incentives, in terms of new language features, that encouraged people to move to Java 5, and even that migration took several years. Java 6 didn't provide much in the way of significant incentives, so many, many organisations simply didn't move. Many of them will hold out and skip to Java 7, meaning that the lifespan of Java 5 will be that much longer. -- Martin Cooper > http://java.sun.com/products/archive/eol.policy.html > > Best, > Kent > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org
