[jsr-314-open-mirror] [jsr-314-open] [ADMIN]Decision: Drop support for JavaSE 5 in ongoing Oracle Mojarra 2.1 development efforts

[Blake Sullivan]

  Then presumably, those companies can't even use the current version of 
Mojarra, so that is neither here nor there.

-- Blake Sullivan

On 8/16/10 11:30 AM, Neil Griffin wrote:
> 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.
>
> Believe it or not, there are Fortune 500 companies that are still 
> version-locked on Java 1.4.
>
> IMHO it would hinder adoption to require a Java 6 JRE for Mojarra 2.1.
>
> On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Ed Burns wrote:
>
>> http://twitter.com/edburns/status/21334998860
>>
>> In order to bring the testing matrix for Mojarra more in line with
>> Oracle's current engineering investment, we are planning to have
>> all future Mojarra builds that are targeting the upcoming JSF 2.1
>> specification only support JavaSE 6 and beyond. Any 2.0.X and 1.2 builds
>> will still continue to be built with Java SE 5.
>>
>> If you have any comments about this decision, please let me know here.
>>
>> Ed
>>
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