Isuru,

I think we don't have a choice. JDK 1.6 EOL is November this year. 
See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

Of course customers can contract support with Oracle, but we need JDK 1.7 to 
offer an alternative.

Isabelle.
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On Apr 20, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Isuru Suriarachchi wrote:

> Is it a must for us to provide run time support for JDK 1.7 for this release? 
> I think this can cause some complications.
> 
> 1. Axis2 is still on JDK 1.5 and I got to know that even Axis2 clustering 
> doesn't work on JDK 1.7.
> 2. We ship lot of samples in which the user has to build the source and 
> deploy. So if the user is on JDK 1.7, there can be build time issues related 
> to samples. Ex: the Jibx issue that I've posted on a separate thread.
> 3. If we are going to support JDK 1.7 I think all the developers should be 
> working on JDK 1.7. But for building, we have to switch back to JDK 1.6.
> 
> Thoughts welcome..
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Isuru
> 
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Thilina Buddhika <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Isabelle,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Isabelle Mauny <[email protected]> wrote:
> Team,
> 
> Just to be sure : we are building on JDK 1.6 and run/test on JDK 1.7 i.e. we 
> do not want to depend on any JDK 1.7 features as we want the products to run 
> both on 1.6 and 1.7.  
> 
> Yes. the platform is built with JDK 1.6 and it does not depend on any JDK 1.7 
> specific features.
> 
> Thanks,
> Thilina
>  
> 
> Please confirm. Thanks.
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> On Apr 18, 2012, at 7:44 PM, Charitha Kankanamge wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Supun, that issue has been fixed.
>> 
>> /Charitha
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Supun Kamburugamuva <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> It was sometime back and was due to a JDK version check in the startup 
>> script. I'll try to see weather I can find it.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Supum..
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Charitha Kankanamge <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> Hi Supun,
>> Can you post the error please? Some folks are testing on jdk1.7 and was able 
>> to log in to ESB mgmt console and do operations. 
>> e.g:- https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON-12794 (Tested version - JDK-1.7)
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Charitha
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Supun Kamburugamuva <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> I tried the latest ESB with JDK 1.7 and it didn't even start due to a error 
>> in the startup script.
>> 
>> Supun.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Please open up Jiras for all JDK 7 runtime issues
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Isuru Suriarachchi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Have we decided to support JDK 1.7 for Carbon 4.0? 
>> 
>> There are plenty of JDK 1.7 related issues in our platform. At least carbon 
>> core doesn't get built on 1.7. In addition to build issues, there are plenty 
>> of run time issues as well which only occurs on jdk 1.7. I think It will 
>> take considerable amount of time to address all these issues and it can 
>> affect the release deadlines.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> ~Isuru
>> 
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