What I've been observing is the world is gradually moving away from Java 5, most of the people who download a JDK download JDK 6. The JRE itself contains many improvements. Sticking to JDK5 means, Axis2 does not get tested of Java 6 on a regular basis by the developers, so we cannot give 100% assurance that everything in Axis2 works fine with Java 6.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Dennis Sosnoski <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/16/2011 12:59 AM, Afkham Azeez wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Dennis Sosnoski <[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 (generally outdated) ones that are present in the distribution.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 > > -- *Afkham Azeez* Senior Software Architect & Senior Manager; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com, * * *Member; Apache Software Foundation; **http://www.apache.org/*<http://www.apache.org/> * email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* cell: +94 77 3320919 blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org>* twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> * linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez* * * *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware* * *
