[seam-dev] [Fwd: Re: Java 5]

[Pete Muir]

On the money Arbi :-)

There aren't significant improvements *that we need as maintainers of Seam* in Java 6 - and certainly not ones that justify increasing the barriers to adoption. We aren't a container, we need to run in as many places as possible.

JBoss AS 6 is a container, and has much more control over where it runs. It will require Java 6.

On 13 Apr 2010, at 16:10, Arbi Sookazian wrote:

> You have a point but there are many shops out there (believe it or not) that are running JVM 1.4 (I worked at one recently).  They do not have the time/money/resources/needs to upgrade.  For Seam apps, 1.5 minimum is obviously required.  This is most likely about supporting as many customers/users as possible.  Our current Seam/EE5 project is running JVM 1.5.  Thank god for annotations, varargs and generics, etc.
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> On the other hand, it would be nice to "force" shops to upgrade their JRE/JDK to 1.6 as a pre-requisite for JBoss 6...
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> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Shervin Asgari <shervin.asgari at redpill-linpro.com> wrote:
> Forgot to cc list
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> Pete Muir wrote:
> Just to remind everyone (not sure if this is a problem or not atm ;-) but all Seam modules should be developed using Java 5 unless there is a strong reason to use Java 6. We should used the Hudson jobs to ensure that the code builds with Java 5.
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> Why? Java 5 is end of life and not any longer supported.
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