We've been using it in a production environment for 2 years with no
issues.

Its much faster and very stable. We've used it on Windows and Linux.

We don't use NIO though.

On May 11, 7:07 am, Eric Angel <[email protected]> wrote:
> A company I worked for a few years made the switch to java 6 and haven't had
> any issues.  Granted, it's a web app that isn't disk IO heavy.  We made the
> switch because the performance improvements offered by java 6.
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hey all,
>
> > A number of podcasts ago there was (as often crops up) a discussion on why
> > people havn't shifted to Java 6 on the server yet, one probably reason is
> > the following sun bug which seems to be affecting folk:
>
> >http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6693490
>
> > Under heavy load, NIO starts to return IOExceptions calling select().  The
> > fix was apparantly supposed to make it for U7 and then later U12, but as yet
> > still doesn't appear to be included (not sure if U13 or U14 includes it thou
> > - anyone know?).
>
> > Currently this is causing mor.ph from holding back upgrading to Java 6,
> > however I see that Google App Engine uses 6, any one have any ideas how they
> > get around this issue?  (maybe they just have too many machines to never
> > actually hit 'load').
>
> > Mark
>
> > --
> > Discouragement is a dissatisfaction with the past, a distaste for the
> > present, and a distrust of the future - Maree De Jong, Life NZ.
> >http://www.talios.com
>
> --
> Eric Angel
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