Hi All Andy raised an interesting point recently that historically the Jena project has only guaranteed to maintain compatibility with the 2 most recent versions of Java. As of the recent Java 8 release this means that Java 6 is technically now outside of the range of versions that we intend to maintain compatibility with.
Dropping of Java 6 support is not going to happen overnight so this email is intended to serve as advance notice that this will happen at some point in the future and to request feedback on this. Note that it is likely that in the short term code will remain Java 6 compatible and so a workaround after Java 6 support is dropped will be to build from source yourself Are there people out there who are currently reliant on Java 6 and cannot move to Java 7/8 for whatever reason? If so what sort of timescale would you consider reasonable for dropping Java 6 support? Thanks for your feedback, Rob
