+1

On 02/06/11 22:52, Andrea Aime wrote:
> Hi,
> first off, sorry for cross posting on GeoTools and GeoServer devel,
> the topic is however
> of interest of both communities.
>
> I'm wondering if times are finally mature to switch GeoTolols and
> GeoServer trunk to JDK 1.6 as
> the minimum requirement (just trunk though).
>
> The rationale being that J2EE 6 has been out a while, JDK 1.5 is end of life
> and hard to grab, and JDK 7 is going to be released shortly (July I think).
>
> Not switching 2.1.x series to JDK 6 will give people stuck on JDK 1.5 some
> 6-12 months more of support.
>
> Also, according to this, jdk 6 will reach its end of life next year
> already, meaning
> we will have only 1 year of that jdk in supported state before its end of life
> (assuming we switch soon):
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
>
> Opinions?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
Software Engineering Team Leader
CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Australian Resources Research Centre

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