<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Neil Griffin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neil.griffin@portletfaces.org">neil.griffin@portletfaces.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Although I understand that Java SE 5 has reached end-of-life status, unless there are features in Java SE 6 that are needed by Mojarra, my vote would be to compile with Java SE 5.<div><br>
</div><div>Believe it or not, there are Fortune 500 companies that are still version-locked on Java 1.4.</div><div><br></div><div>IMHO it would hinder adoption to require a Java 6 JRE for Mojarra 2.1.</div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I would usually agree with this statement, but I think that any company that's actually willing to use Mojarra 2.1 will have upgraded to Java EE 6. My "conservative" clients are just upgrading to Java EE 5 and JSF 1.2, and they're willing to use JDK 1.6.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Ed Burns wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><a href="http://twitter.com/edburns/status/21334998860" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/edburns/status/21334998860</a><br><br>In order to bring the testing matrix for Mojarra more in line with<br>
Oracle's current engineering investment, we are planning to have<br>all future Mojarra builds that are targeting the upcoming JSF 2.1<br>specification only support JavaSE 6 and beyond. Any 2.0.X and 1.2 builds<br>will still continue to be built with Java SE 5.<br>
<br>If you have any comments about this decision, please let me know here.<br><br>Ed<br><br>-- <br>| <a href="mailto:edward.burns@oracle.com" target="_blank">edward.burns@oracle.com</a> | office: +1 407 458 0017<br>| homepage: | <a href="http://ridingthecrest.com/" target="_blank">http://ridingthecrest.com/</a><br>
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