Re: a potential "AR1" release

[Craig L Russell]

On Sep 5, 2007, at 7:48 PM, John Sarman wrote:

Dan Creswell wrote:

John Sarman wrote:


discussed making the minimum required JRE 1.5.

I know that most would like to see River have a release, but has anybody Jini alway craved the need for templates and Generics and the move to

River

would allow for just that.

That's been discussed over on Jini-Users a few times don't think there's an agreed view (be worth checking through the archives). I also think this is probably to big of an issue to be considering for AR1 (which to a reasonable degree is about us committers figuring out how to drive).

because Java is upwards compatible.

type safety additions to River in later releases.


than 1.4.x to sail up the River .

A requirement of River to use a minimum JRE of 1.5 could be applied to AR1 AR1 could be compatible with 1.4 (based off jini2_1). However, by requiring 1.5, committers could generify some classes in the core architecture for I am asking for the community to choose a minimum version of Java greater

Might also be worth organizing some kind of canvas to find out what JDK

is in production around commercial Jini-user land.......

I personally would like to see 1.6 as the minimum (GPL'ed Java) .

Craig

IIUC (someone with better information please correct me) the GPL version of Java, available as OpenJDK, is Java 7 not Java 6.

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John

Craig Russell
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