On 03/16/2011 12:59 AM, Afkham Azeez wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Dennis Sosnoski <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > 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? > > > > Perhaps you are in a better position to answer that question than me :)
I guess I'm confused - I thought you were the one saying we should move to requiring Java 6? One of the main "advances" of Java 6 is the bundling of Sun/Oracle's JAXB and JAX-WS implementations into the base distribution. But that's not really a gain for us on Axis2, since we want to use our own versions instead of the (generally outdated) ones that are present in the distribution. Aside from that, there are a few added classes (with Deque probably the most useful), and some scattered added methods. None of this is going to make any significant difference to the Axis2 codebase, as far as I can see. - Dennis
