It's likely that I will require JDK 1.4 for the indefinite future, as
two of my projects are tied into earlier software environments (e.g.,
just upgraded to XP prior to Christmas). I'm myself using JDK 5 for
compiling but do not use any of the newer constructs so that things
will still compile with 1.4.
Janne Jalkanen (JIRA) wrote:
Drop support for JDK 1.4.
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Key: JSPWIKI-121
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-121
Project: JSPWiki
Issue Type: Task
Reporter: Janne Jalkanen
Fix For: 3.0
Since Java 6 has been out for a long time, it's time to move to JDK 5. We
already require JDK 5 to compile (due to some MBean classes we are using), but
JSPWiki 2.6 should also work on JDK 1.4.
However, JDK 5 does give us quite a lot of advantages, programming-wise. It
makes loops nicer, and generics and annotations make life so much easier.
This shift is targeted to 3.0. In theory, we could start moving to JDK 5 even
earlier in 2.8, unless there's a large amount of opposition. It's my
understanding though that quite a few companies are still running JDK 1.4.
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