Virtually no one is paying attention Oracle's pronouncements on this subject.
If 1.7 ever shows up, that might change. On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/06/11 16:21, Oleg Tikhonov wrote: >> >> As you may know, Oracle announced Java 5 SE EOL (End Of Life) since 2009 . >> However, we are still supporting Java 5 SE. What is a rational behind the >> walls? Why we encourage our costumers do not upgrade to the more modern >> version(s) of Java? > > I suspect a fair number of our users are on Java 5 still, especially in > enterprise settings. POI still gets about one message a month from people > running it on Java 1.4 who're frustrated that the latest versions need Java > 1.5! We can ask those sort of users to upgrade, but usually it isn't their > choice and they can't. > > For now I'd say we should likely stick with Java 5 as the minimum version. > If there's a compelling feature we need from Java 6 then revisit it, but for > now I'm not sure there's anything we'd need that justifies loosing all the > users stuck on Java 5. > > Nick >
