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

[Kito Mann]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Neil Griffin <neil.griffin at portletfaces.org
> 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.
>

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.


>
> 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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