Jan Haderka wrote: > On Jan 5, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Nils Breunese <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html mentions that >> February 2013 marks the end of public updates for Oracle Java SE 6. I'm >> looking into upgrading all of our infrastructure to Java 7 and on >> http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com/administration/certified-stack.html I >> found the following: >> >> ---- >> • Magnolia CMS 4.4 and earlier: Sun JVM 1.5.0 (build 14 and higher), Sun JVM >> 1.6.x >> • Magnolia CMS 4.5 and later: Java SE 6 or Java SE 7 (except on Mac OS X >> where you should use Java SE 6) >> ---- >> >> Does this mean Magnolia 4.4 and earlier are not certified to work with Java >> 7 at all? > > Yes, 4.4 is not certified. There are issues (from top of my head something > with comparators, utf-8, and few others) that were fixed only in 4.5.
Ok, thanks for the clarification. And these fixes won't be backported to 4.4? >> And why shouldn't one use Magnolia 4.5 and later with Java 7 on OS X? I have >> been using Oracle's Java 7 JDK on OS X for a while now for Magnolia 4.4 >> development and haven't noticed any problems myself so far. > > Java 6 on Mac is supported by Apple not by Oracle, so AFAIL EOL from Oracle > doesn't apply to it. I know we could stick with Java 6 from Apple on OS X for now, but we would like to upgrade to Java 7 across all of our infrastructure when we can, so we too can enjoy the better performance, new features, etc. If we can't yet, well then we won't, of course. > How often do you activate in development? There is a bug in Java 7 which gets > exposed during activation and it's actually possible to being whole JVM down > with SIGDEV on OSX. Once this issue is fixed by Oracle, Java 7 will be > certified also for Mac. Thanks for the clarification. We almost never (if ever) activate in development and our testing, staging and production servers are running Linux. As long as we don't activate in development on our development machines running Mac OS X we should be fine with Oracle Java 7 on Mac OS X? Nils. ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details, see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
