[rules-users] JDK1.5 Future for Drools and jBPM

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Will be using JDK5 for the forseable future.

-Stathis

Mark Proctor wrote:
> http://blog.athico.com/2011/01/jdk15-future-for-drools-and-jbpm.html
>
> Dropping JDK1.5 is something that rears it's head from time to time, and
> we know we have to address it sooner or later.
>
> We recognise that the majority of people would like to see JDK1.5
> dropped, but there are still a few large critical enterprises using
> Drools and jBPM on JDK1.5.
>
> Technically for us there isn't a huge advantage, and certainly no "must
> have" feature, in the same way that moving from 1.4 to 1.5 was. However
> it does make the project easier to manage: less runtime targets to test
> against and we don't need to double check people are putting JDK1.6 only
> classes in Drools and jBPM.
>
> My personally opinion is that we need a widest audience possible for the
> up coming jBPM5 release and we still have some critical things I'd like
> to see in Drools first. So personally I'd like to wait until the last
> few months of this year, say October, before dumping JDK1.5; which would
> allow for a very late 2011 release or very ealry 2012 release that is
> JDK1.6+.
>
> What do people think? Comments welcome, I've also added a poll on the
> right side.
>
> Mark
>
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