support of Java 5

[Oleg Tikhonov <ol...@apache.org>]

Hello all,

As you may know, Oracle announced Java 5 SE EOL (End Of Life) since 2009 .
However, we are still supporting Java 5 SE. What is a rational behind the
walls? Why we encourage our costumers do not upgrade to the more modern
version(s) of Java?
Developing new products/features we cannot benefit from sophisticated
solutions which modern Java gives us.

Kind regards,

Oleg

Re: support of Java 5

[Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>]

Virtually no one is paying attention Oracle's pronouncements on this subject.

If 1.7 ever shows up, that might change.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Nick Burch <ni...@alfresco.com> wrote:
> On 08/06/11 16:21, Oleg Tikhonov wrote:
>>
>> As you may know, Oracle announced Java 5 SE EOL (End Of Life) since 2009 .
>> However, we are still supporting Java 5 SE. What is a rational behind the
>> walls? Why we encourage our costumers do not upgrade to the more modern
>> version(s) of Java?
>
> I suspect a fair number of our users are on Java 5 still, especially in
> enterprise settings. POI still gets about one message a month from people
> running it on Java 1.4 who're frustrated that the latest versions need Java
> 1.5! We can ask those sort of users to upgrade, but usually it isn't their
> choice and they can't.
>
> For now I'd say we should likely stick with Java 5 as the minimum version.
> If there's a compelling feature we need from Java 6 then revisit it, but for
> now I'm not sure there's anything we'd need that justifies loosing all the
> users stuck on Java 5.
>
> Nick
>

Re: support of Java 5

[Nick Burch <ni...@alfresco.com>]

On 08/06/11 16:21, Oleg Tikhonov wrote:
> As you may know, Oracle announced Java 5 SE EOL (End Of Life) since 2009 .
> However, we are still supporting Java 5 SE. What is a rational behind the
> walls? Why we encourage our costumers do not upgrade to the more modern
> version(s) of Java?

I suspect a fair number of our users are on Java 5 still, especially in 
enterprise settings. POI still gets about one message a month from 
people running it on Java 1.4 who're frustrated that the latest versions 
need Java 1.5! We can ask those sort of users to upgrade, but usually it 
isn't their choice and they can't.

For now I'd say we should likely stick with Java 5 as the minimum 
version. If there's a compelling feature we need from Java 6 then 
revisit it, but for now I'm not sure there's anything we'd need that 
justifies loosing all the users stuck on Java 5.

Nick