[infinispan-dev] JDK5 or JDK6? Was: A better fix for Immutables

[Manik Surtani]

On 25 Sep 2009, at 16:56, Galder Zamarreno wrote:

>
>
> On 09/25/2009 05:38 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> On 09/25/2009 07:38 AM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>>> On 25 Sep 2009, at 11:53, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
>>>> On 09/24/2009 12:50 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> </snip>
>>>>>
>>>>> For a basic runtime, the deps are fairly limited (JTA interfaces,
>>>>> JGroups, JBoss Marshalling if you are using JDK6.  Add JAXB if  
>>>>> JDK5)
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm, JBoss Marshalling if you are using JDK6? JBoss Marshalling is
>>>> there regardless AFAIK and has JDK5 requirements. It's XNIO 2.0  
>>>> that
>>>> might have JDK6 requirement but it'd be in an optional module  
>>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> I should have added brackets.  :-)
>>>
>>> "{JTA interfaces, JGroups, JBoss Marshalling} if you are using JDK6.
>>> Add JAXB if JDK5."
>>
>> Also it seems foregone that a (relatively-near) future JBMAR will  
>> require
>> JDK6, namely to add support for optimized serialization of new  
>> collection
>> types and to take advantage of the faster classloading of JDK6- 
>> targeted
>> classes.
>
> Hmmm, this is important since JBMAR is a core dependency. We had a
> discussion a while back and the agreement was to stay on JDK5 since we
> did nothing JDK6 specific but I think it might be time to move to JDK6
> fully, thoughts?

Vote to the public?  I'd love to baseline on JDK6.  But I'd hate to  
limit uptake.

Cheers
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Manik Surtani
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