On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27.06.2012 23:37, Kalle Korhonen wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 27.06.2012 21:13, Kalle Korhonen wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Howard Lewis Ship <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>> Really? Switch JDK versions because of @Override? I stated my concerns >>> about ditching JDK 1.5 >>> support without need before. I just would not do it if we don't gain any >>> significant benefit. >> Of course we don't do it just because of this single reason. There are >> many small reasons for updating to JDK 1.6 and a few strong concerns >> for not doing so. You can always refute any single lesser reason as >> not important enough. > What are these numerous small reasons? The only ones that I have heard in our > past discussions were > JDK5 EOL (which doesn't matter since we are really talking about Java 5 > bytecode compatibility here) > and @Override on interface implementations. Please show me that list of small > reasons that when > taken as a whole outweigh the concern of loosing or hindering users when > switching to a newer > bytecode version.
- @Override on interface methods - jmx api enhancements - all the new jdk 1.6 language features (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/features-141434.html - personally I really like and have multiple times used the new collection classes) - tapestry-hibernate to use Hibernate 4.1.x We all understand the concern of loosing users by switching to a newer bytecode version, but I just think it has to be really, really small subset of users. Can you list any users or companies that are currently using 5.4 snapshots or would seriously consider switching to 5.4, or worse yet, would abandon the whole T5 platform because they are currently using java 1.5 and would never consider upgrading their jre? I'm sure there are more existing users using T5.0, T5.1 or even T5.2 running on JRE 1.5 and that's fine, if they or those apps are in maintenance mode, I seriously doubt they'll ever upgrade even to a new T5 version. Kalle --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
