[hibernate-dev] 3.6

[Tomasz Blachowicz]

Hi Steve,

One environment that stings into my mind is WAS 6.1. This version of
WebSphere AS is very popular ans still largely used, especially on mainframe
platform. I came across WAS 6.1 when working with a few customers. As far as
I know WAS 6.1 foes not have support for 1.6, so that would block Hibernate
upgrade path for all the applications targeted for this environment and that
would be regret.

Regards,
Tom

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> One item scheduled for 3.6 is dropping JDK 1.4 support.  Which leaves
> the question of whether to go 1.5 or 1.6.  I know 1.5 is within its EOL,
> but I dont think that should be the deciding factor.
>
> Really I was more thinking of JDBC differences and (1) not having to
> maintain different JDBC 3 and JDBC 4 code and (2) leveraging some JDBC 4
> features.  TO me the big question comes down to what environments do we
> know that do not support JDK 1.6
>
> Another option is to make the intermediate jump to 1.5 since I will not
> be making the changes that would require compile time dep on 1.6 in our
> 3.6.
>
> But at any rate, I'd like to understand the environments which currently
> do not support 1.6.
>
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