There's retroweaver ... On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Simon Helsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andy, > > a quick summary of our situation. Our current release (June 2011) supports > Java 5 and it is still in the air if we will require Java 6 for our next > release. Our problem is mostly customers still using WAS 6.x which is based > on Java 5. I cannot give a firmer answer at this point. At worst, we won't > upgrade our TDB version :-) > > Simon > > > *Simon Helsen, Ph.D.* > Advisory Software Engineer - Jazz Foundation Server > ------------------------------ > *Phone:* 1-519-471-9292 | *Mobile:* 1-226-973-8118 | *Tie-Line:* 23157390 > * > E-mail:* *[email protected]* <[email protected]> > [image: IBM] > > > > > From: Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> To: > [email protected] Date: 08/03/2011 06:44 AM Subject: Jena and > Java version : drop Java 1.5? > ------------------------------ > > > > Java7 is out. [*] [+] > > We have in the past had a policy of supporting "two major Java > versions". I think all the released modules are Java 1.5 except Fuseki > (which isn't yet a library anyway) and TxTDB is Java6, for the more > complete library and better conncurrency implementation. > > I propose we set the supported Java version to Java6. > > This means resetting the POMs and Eclipse project settings; class file > versions will change. > > To users: > > Are there any problems created by dropping formal support for Java5? > (which is past it's Sun/Oracle end of life anyway). It's not that there > will be sudden large changes in the codebase. I think IBM still provide > Java5 support for their Java for a while yet but is that > legacy-systems-only? > > Andy > > [*] and there is some debate: > http://java.dzone.com/articles/dont-use-java-7-are-you > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/131387 > > [+] I have not tried it, nor tried the optimizations in question on Java6. > > >
