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. ------ Isabelle Mauny Director, Product Management; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ email: [email protected] - mobile: +34 616050684 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. > ------ > Isabelle Mauny > Director, Product Management; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ > email: [email protected] - mobile: +34 616050684 > > 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 >> >> -- >> Isuru Suriarachchi >> Technical Lead >> WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com >> email : [email protected] >> blog : http://isurues.wordpress.com/ >> >> lean . enterprise . middleware >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Afkham Azeez >> Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com >> Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ >> >> email: [email protected] cell: +94 77 3320919 >> blog: http://blog.afkham.org >> twitter: http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez >> linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez >> >> Lean . Enterprise . 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