On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) <[email protected] > wrote:
> If possible at all, the base line support should be Java 1.4 as long as > possible as there are still > quite a few Java deployments at that level (also 1.5) in the market > despite Sun/Oracle putting the > EOL death spell on Java 1.4 and 1.5 > With OpenJDK available for 1.6 and 1.7, JDK 1.4 and 1.5 are dead as a dodo. Who will maintain legacy, non-open code? Plus, Java has good backwards compatibility, I have had no problem running apps there were created in the days of Java 1.4 with the latest OpenJDK 1.7... but that's just my limited experience on the matter.... Just my $0.02 FC
