I'd say a more likely reason a lot of companies have not shifted to haven't shifted to Java 6 on the server is that ~35% of the app server market belongs to IBM Websphere, the latest version of which only supports Java 1.5. Most large Enterprises just can't go to 6.
On May 10, 8:54 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
