This had my support last time; and does so again now. As per the osgi thread I have been looking into what is needed to support geotools on andriod - one of the items involves use of the Java 6 Service Loader (rather than ServiceRegistery).
uDig has already transitioned to a Java 6 only project, the release of GeoTools 8 is a year off (given our usual release cycle) providing some time before the effect of us yanking Java 6 support is felt in a stable release. -- Jody Garnett On Friday, 3 June 2011 at 12:52 AM, Andrea Aime 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 > (mailto:Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net) > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
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