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

[Sanne Grinovero]

My 2c:

I'm deploying only on JDKs >=6 since three years now,
and IMHO new projects going to consider Infinispan in this timeframe
are probably in a design/early development fase, almost everyone
will be ready to deploy something stable only after the JDK5 will be phased out.

The main "market" for this kind of libraries is enterprise, which wants support
and will probably refrain from using Java5, at least for new deployments.

2009/9/26 Manik Surtani <manik at jboss.org>:
>
> 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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