Going from 1.4 to 1.5 gave access to many new features. Going from 1.5 to 1.6 seems to me to add very little that's useful.
What do you see as the big advantages of moving to 1.6/Java 6? - Dennis On 03/14/2011 10:17 PM, Afkham Azeez wrote: > I remember people saying similar things when we were planning to move > from JDK 1.4 to 1.5, and there were many discussions & resistance > about the drastic shift since JDK 1.5 introduced significant changes. > There will be some inertia, but eventually we will have to move on. > Regarding the benefits of migrating to JDK 6, I don't think we can > simply classify those as minor, and ignore it. > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Dennis Sosnoski <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I'd think that the benefits of moving to Java 6 are minor at best, > and while most users won't care about the loss of Java 5 support > there are probably a significant number who will. Andreas' earlier > suggestion of a Maven profile sounds like it gives a nice way of > selectively updating to dependencies that require Java 6 without > moving the rest of the code to Java 6. > > - Dennis > > Dennis M. Sosnoski > Java SOA and Web Services Consulting > <http://www.sosnoski.com/consult.html> > Axis2/CXF/Metro SOA and Web Services Training > <http://www.sosnoski.com/training.html> > Web Services Jump-Start <http://www.sosnoski.com/jumpstart.html> > > > On 03/14/2011 05:50 AM, Andreas Veithen wrote: >> Oracle will not release any new version of their _free-of-charge_ Java >> 1.5 distribution. That doesn't apply to their commercial offering and >> also doesn't apply to other vendors. E.g. WebSphere 6.1 (the last >> remaining version that uses Java 1.5) will only reach end of service >> in late 2012. >> >> There was a similar discussion recently in the CXF project. They >> concluded that it is too early to drop 1.5 support: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04370.html >> >> I think most of the arguments also apply to Axis2. >> >> Andreas >> >> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 13:49, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I believe Oracle will not release any new JDK 1.5 version to fix >>> security >>> issues such >>> as http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/07/java_denial_of_service_bug/ >>> A JDK 1.6 release was provided a few days after the bug was made public. >>> However, they have made a patching tool >>> available >>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2010-4476-305811.html >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Andreas Veithen >>> <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I think that the question is not asked in the right way. It's not an >>>> all-or-nothing thing. We can easily set up a Maven profile so that the >>>> clustering module is skipped if the build is run on Java 1.5. This >>>> allows us to remain compatible with Java 1.5 for the rest of the >>>> framework. We only need to update the release procedure to make sure >>>> that the release build is done using Java 1.6, so that the clustering >>>> stuff is included in the binary distributions. It's pretty much the >>>> same approach that was used for the JAXB2 and JAX-WS support up to >>>> Axis2 1.4.x. >>>> >>>> Note that for many people, upgrading to Java 1.6 represents a huge >>>> effort because it requires an upgrade of the application server on >>>> which they deploy their applications. At this point, I don't see >>>> enough added value that would justify to make this mandatory for the >>>> entire Axis2 stack. >>>> >>>> Andreas >>>> >>>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:56, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thoughts on $subject please. 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