Yeah, I would be ok with requiring java 6 for gt 8.1 / gs 2.2. Part of my motivation is that using java 5 on a mac has become increasingly difficult in recent releases of OSX.
However that said, i think past getting developer agreement for the change we really should try to best we can poll the user community. I am thinking maybe we can set up one of those polls on the website to allow people to input their choice? And then try to generate as much traffic to it as possible via blog, email lists, twitter, etc... Just a thought. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>wrote: > Hi, > first off, sorry for cross posting on GeoTools and GeoServer devel, > the topic is however > of interest of both communities. > > I'm wondering if times are finally mature to switch GeoTolols and > GeoServer trunk to JDK 1.6 as > the minimum requirement (just trunk though). > > The rationale being that J2EE 6 has been out a while, JDK 1.5 is end of > life > and hard to grab, and JDK 7 is going to be released shortly (July I think). > > Not switching 2.1.x series to JDK 6 will give people stuck on JDK 1.5 some > 6-12 months more of support. > > Also, according to this, jdk 6 will reach its end of life next year > already, meaning > we will have only 1 year of that jdk in supported state before its end of > life > (assuming we switch soon): > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > > Opinions? > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Ing. Andrea Aime > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Tech lead > > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > Italy > > phone: +39 0584 962313 > fax: +39 0584 962313 > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ > http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT > http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime > http://twitter.com/geowolf > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with > vRanger. > Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is > safe, > secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? > Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
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