On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Joachim Van der Auwera <joac...@geosparc.com> wrote: > Whether or not to drop support for Java5 is something I would personally > attack from a different point of view. Are there users out there who are > still running on Java5? Are there potential users who would be unable to > use GeoTools 8 is it does not support Java5? And very important, is > there something which would be impossible to do in GeoTools 8 because of > Java5 support?
I'm against still using java 5 for a few reasons: - it's very hard to even get that JDK (even more so if you are on a Apple) - our code sometimes breaks in JDK 6, but we don't see it, yet JDK 6 is the vast majority of the deploys - java 5 is visibly slower, meaning our builds are taking a hit because of that (and everybody does a full build before committing, _right_?) - java 6 contains a more complete xml subsystem, meaning we can probably drop some dependencies - it gives us access to a more complete concurrent package as well as a number of small handy api - java 6 is about to reach its end of life, shall we switch only when it becomes painful again to find the tools to develop? Long story short, I've been waiting for years to allow production sites to upgrade, and quite honestly I had enough :-p. Judging by the poll results http://www.micropoll.com/a/MicroPollData?id=423595&mode=html it seems I'm not the only one. The GeoServer pool still needs some advertising so we're a bit behind in term of votes, let's see what happens there: http://www.micropoll.com/a/MicroPollData?id=423614&mode=html 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 ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
