[rules-dev] Don't use Java 6 only methods for now, like String.isEmpty()

[Swindells, Thomas]

+1 from me – Java 5 End of Life was October 2009 so it hasn’t been officially support by sun/oracle for over 2 years now!
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

In fact looking at that Java 6 has now been released for 5 years and is due in 6 months time to be EOL’d itself!

Thomas

From: rules-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:rules-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Mario Fusco
Sent: 16 December 2011 08:09
To: Rules Dev List
Subject: Re: [rules-dev] Don't use Java 6 only methods for now, like String.isEmpty()


Secretly I am hoping we can reopen the "switch to JDK 6 for drools 6" discussion :)
It's been almost a year since we had a "switch to JDK 6" discussion.

+1 on moving to JDK 6 (if possible). We can easily avoid using the String.isEmpty method, but there are other things, like, from my point of view, the possibility to invoke the javac compiler directly from the code, that could be very handy in a near future.

Mario

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