FWIW, Oracle is pushing us to Java 8 (yes, paid support has been mentioned in general, but Java 7 is not EOL like 6 is, yet).
Gary On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > I suspect you are not alone, which is why I am reluctant to migrate as > fast as Gary wants to. > > Do you have any idea as to when your projects will be updated to Java 7 or > 8? Are you paying Oracle (or someone else) for support? > > Understanding what our users are doing would help in knowing when we > should upgrade. > > Ralph > > On Dec 1, 2014, at 1:27 AM, Piers Uso Walter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We still have quite a few projects that depend on Java 6 and were just > about to start migrating these from log4j to log4j2. > I guess we’ll have to wait and see how this discussion plays out… > > With kind regards > Piers Uso Walter <[email protected]> > > > > Am 01.12.2014 um 07:56 schrieb Gary Gregory <[email protected]>: > > Just to play devil's advocate... I'm not so sure on the laggard view. If I > start a new project today, it is a Java 8 project or maybe a java 7 project > if some kit breaks on 8. For my major existing project that recently moved > from java 6 to 7, I gave up upgrading from log4j 1 to 2 because we depend > on to many log4j guts (configuration and custom appender). So for me, java > 7 is the min and some folks in our company are starting to discuss making > java 8 the min just mitigate some real or perceived security issues. > > Gary > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Ralph Goers <[email protected]> > Date:12/01/2014 01:13 (GMT-05:00) > To: Log4J Developers List <[email protected]> > Cc: > Subject: Re: Java 7? > > We have had this discussion before. There are some components that should > be leaders and some that should be laggards when it comes to upgrading. My > opinion is that Log4j needs to be at the tail end in terms of dropping > support for older Java versions. > > Ralph > > On Nov 30, 2014, at 11:05 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hm, one of those blog shows Java 7 ~ 80 % and Java 6 at ~20 %. That fits > the general 80/20 rule for me ;-) > > Gary > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Or, I guess, when one of these surveys shows Java 6 is down below 10%. >> Neither of these is extremely current, but it is interesting to note that >> the second showed Java 6’s usage actually increase over the last several >> months. I can’t imagine why that would be. >> http://adtmag.com/blogs/watersworks/2014/05/2014-java-survey.aspx >> >> http://blog.jelastic.com/2014/05/20/software-stacks-market-share-april-2014/ >> >> FWIW, I am still using Java 6 at work for some things so I have no >> interest in not being able to use Log4j 2 in them. They should all be >> upgraded in the next few months. >> >> Ralph >> >> >> On Nov 30, 2014, at 10:32 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> November 2015. >> >> Ralph >> >> On Nov 30, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I just had to do some refactoring to account for not being able to use a >> Java 7 multi-catch. >> >> I would be OK to release 2.2 ASAP and then make Java 7 the minimum to >> take advantage to Java 7 features like multi-catch and try-with resources. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Gary >> >> -- >> E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> >> >> >> > > > -- > E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > > > > -- E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
