All, now that Java 8 has been released, and Java 6 has been officially EOLd for well over a year, I'd like to propose that we make 0.28 the last release for which we officially support Java 6. As a library provider I'm aware that we need to strive to make our libraries as widely adoptable as possible, but not adopting Java 7 also holds us back from implementing functionality that requires features of later releases (as JMS 2.0 does).
Java 7 was released in 2011 and is itself scheduled to be EOLd next year. If we do later find critical defects that affect the 0.28 release we should consider back-patching to a Java 6 release based on 0.28, however I don't think requiring that all new functionality releases require the adoption a version of Java that Oracle supports to be an undue burden. -- Rob
