When do we drop Java 5 support?

2011-02-22 Thread Christian Schneider
Hi all, now that camel dropped Java 5 I am asking myself when will we also drop support for Java 5 in CXF? As CXF 2.4.0 allows some bigger changes than a minor version we could do that in my opinion. Christian -- http://www.liquid-reality.de

Re: When do we drop Java 5 support?

2011-02-22 Thread Glen Mazza
Probably nice to drop Java 5 with CXF 2.4.0, especially if there's any architectural cobwebs in CXF necessitated by supporting it; apparently though ActiveMQ still supports Java 5 (http://activemq.apache.org/getting-started.html#GettingStarted-PreInstallationRequirements). Glen On 2/22/2011

Re: When do we drop Java 5 support?

2011-02-22 Thread Craig Tataryn
I'm *soo* glad I'm out of WAS 6.1 land now, this statement would have sent me running for the hills. :) Craig. On 2011-02-22, at 2:45 AM, Christian Schneider wrote: > Hi all, > > now that camel dropped Java 5 I am asking myself when will we also drop > support for Java 5 in CXF? As CXF 2.4.0

Re: When do we drop Java 5 support?

2011-02-22 Thread robert
Just FYI... Java SE 5.0 went EOL October 2009: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html. Extended Oracle business support for Java SE 5.0 ends May 2014. Though premier supports ends May 2011, which is coming right up. Considering Java SE 7, I personally feel that Camel did the rig

Re: When do we drop Java 5 support?

2011-02-22 Thread Daniel Kulp
On Tuesday 22 February 2011 3:45:44 AM Christian Schneider wrote: > Hi all, > > now that camel dropped Java 5 I am asking myself when will we also drop > support for Java 5 in CXF? As CXF 2.4.0 allows some bigger changes than > a minor version we could do that in my opinion. Well, I guess the que

Re: When do we drop Java 5 support?

2011-02-22 Thread Fred Dushin
Speaking from the field, you do not want to drop 1.5. There are organization out there that are not moving to 1.6 (or are moving very slowly) out of fear of Oracle's collecting royalties under the 1.6 redistribution terms. CXF is meant to be an embedded library. If you drop support for 1.5, yo