Please don't move to Java 5.
My reasons are simple (and some perhaps stem out of old information or
misinformation):
MacOS 9 does not run Java 1.5, which is one of my target platforms.
Has Java 5 been ported to all target platforms?
Java 5 has nice syntax sugar but no real substance other than the
stronger type checking.
(My opinion based on porting to Java 5 and then back to Java 1.4.2.)
Not all support tooling (e.g. java2html, checkstyle, findbugs, ...)
supports Java 5 syntax. This reduces my ability to qa code using these
tools.
Java 5 moves lucene away from the possibility of ever working on J2ME.
Java 5 moves away from running on an open source java, e.g. gjc.
The performance benefits of a Java 5 JVM are independent of Java 5
source.
Going to Java 5 requires all applications using Lucene to upgrade to
Java 5.
Sure Java 5 has been out for a while and Java 6 is around the corner,
but ask yourself why it is not the defacto standard version of Java.
karl wettin wrote:
Will code with 1.5 syntax be committed?
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