On Feb 5, 3:52 am, Kieran <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 4, 2:15 am, phil swenson <[email protected]> wrote: > > what exactly does end of life mean for java anyway? > > > I still see java 5 a lot…. I assume it's been "EOL"ed. > > I was on a Spring training course, and the guy was going on about how > you can use the annotations and this lady in the front asked him how > to do the same task in the XML config because their machines were > still running Java 1.3
Although we don't need to support 1.3 anymore, we are stuck on 1.4 primarily due to the fact that we need to support various and sundry application servers, and not always the newest versions of them. > Old Java unfortunately never dies. We need a t-shirt with this printed: "Old Java never dies, it just rusts quietly in the paddock!" Cheers, Paul -- 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.
