On Jan 2, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:

>> From: Jeremy Boynes [mailto:jer...@boynes.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Boynes
>> Subject: [taglibs] Move to pre-req Java 1.6 for Locale services?
> 
>> As most users are likely to be running on 1.6
> 
> As the traffic on the users list shows, this is clearly not the case.
> 
>> Sun's 1.5 is generally end-of-lifed
> 
> Unfortunately, that's not the case.  1.5 is supported for another 15 years or 
> so - if you buy the so-called business version, which many corporate users 
> have.
> 
>> I'd like to propose solving this with the 1.6 APIs and making it a 
>> pre-requisite. Any issue with this?
> 
> I think it might have a serious impact on Tomcat deployment in corporate 
> environments.


To clarify, this only applies to the tag library not to Tomcat itself (although 
Tomcat 7 already requires Java SE 6 as does the Servlet 3.0 spec).
--
Jeremy


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