[jdom-interest] Opinion Poll: - JDOM2 and minimum-required Java - Java5 or Java6

[Olivier Jaquemet]

Hello Rolf,

As far as we are concerned in my company, we are still evaluating which 
Java version to support in our next product release. Some of our clients 
are still stuck on older appserver release which still requires Java 5 
(eg WebSphere 6.1).
But I would completely understand JDOM 2 to require Java 6, and this 
would simply be another good reason to provide support only starting 
from Java 6.

Thank you for asking.

Regards,
Olivier

On 16/11/2011 05:57, Rolf wrote:
> November 18th is coming up pretty soon.
>
> Please speak up if you have any comments, suggestions, or concerns.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rolf
>
> On 31/10/2011 9:26 AM, Rolf Lear wrote:
>>
>> I should add a time-line here.
>>
>> I think I will sit on this for a couple of weeks... Say Friday the 
>> 18th -
>> three weeks.
>>
>> At that point I will summarize all the responses... and between now and
>> then I will also see if I can come up with a more detailed list of 
>> what the
>> implications for supporting Java5 are...
>>
>> Then we can make a more informed decision.
>>
>> A third option would be to only officially support Java6, but also put
>> together a document on how to make it work with Java5.
>>
>> Rolf
>>
>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:56:44 -0400, Rolf<jdom at tuis.net>  wrote:
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> So, as a poll:
>>>
>>> * Does anyone have a realistic need to run a future JDOM2 on Java5?
>>> * If so, could you add additional jars to your classpath just to make
>>> JDOM2 work?
>>> * Any comments, suggestions.
>>>
>>> Currently I feel that it is reasonable to set Java6 as a minumum and 
>>> not
>>
>>> even bother trying to think about Java5 issues... anyone disagree?
>>>
>>> Rolf
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