Re: [Axis2] Isn't it time for us to move to Java 6?

2011-03-16 Thread Afkham Azeez
If you were working for a company which required that their software run on JDK6 and when you ask the developers whether they have extensively tested the software on JDK 6, and the answer is, yes, the continuous integration system runs that, but we developers mostly test it with JDK5, would you be

[jira] Created: (AXIS2-4980) Axis2 web console component contains some JSP and HTML errors and deprecated tag names.

2011-03-16 Thread Ying Andrews (JIRA)
Axis2 web console component contains some JSP and HTML errors and deprecated tag names. --- Key: AXIS2-4980 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-4980 Proj

[jira] Updated: (AXIS2-4980) Axis2 web console component contains some JSP and HTML errors and deprecated tag names.

2011-03-16 Thread Ying Andrews (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-4980?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Ying Andrews updated AXIS2-4980: Attachment: core.patch I have fixed these minor issues in the attached patch. The patch will make t

Re: [Axis2] Isn't it time for us to move to Java 6?

2011-03-16 Thread Andreas Veithen
I don't see any empirical evidence that would support the claim that Axis2 is not sufficiently tested with Java 1.6. How do you come to that conclusion? Andreas On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:21, Afkham Azeez wrote: > If you were working for a company which required that their software run on > JDK6

Re: [VOTE] [AXIS2] Release Axis2-1.6.0

2011-03-16 Thread Andreas Veithen
The Ant release notes say this: "Ant no longer ships with Apache Xerces-J or the XML APIs but relies on the Java runtime to provide a parser and matching API versions." It's for the very same reason that we removed Xerces from our distributions; it is simply not necessary to include it because th

RE: [Axis2] Isn't it time for us to move to Java 6?

2011-03-16 Thread Tom Jordahl
I agree with Andreas here. I work on commercial software and we always build on a minimum JDK (happens to be 5 at the moment) and we always claim support for that version and above. I do not think that there is any hesitation for consumers of open source software to take a release that support

Re: [Axis2] Isn't it time for us to move to Java 6?

2011-03-16 Thread Afkham Azeez
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Andreas Veithen wrote: > I don't see any empirical evidence that would support the claim that > Axis2 is not sufficiently tested with Java 1.6. How do you come to > that conclusion? > What percentage of developers build/test Axis2 on a regular basis on Java 1.6? A