[webbeans-dev] Java 6?

[Pete Muir]

The general consensus appears to be no - so we'll go with that :-)

Regarding Reza's point about EE5/EE6 compatiblity, we have maintained  
EE5 compatiblity in nearly all places. Obviously some features, such  
as EJB singletons won't be available, and others such as EJB timeout  
method won't work in the 1.0.0 release (if I receive sufficient  
requests to enable this, we will).

However, given that it is a reasonably large task to fullly integrate  
Web Beans into the EJB (+JPA + JTA etc.) container, I suspect most  
people who want to use Web Beans outside of EE6 will either use a  
container which supports it natively like JBoss AS 5.2 or without the  
EJB etc. support in Tomcat. We plan to provide JPA support as an addon  
in Tomcat.


On 18 Aug 2009, at 20:46, Reza Rahman wrote:

> Pete,
>
> I think this is a very bad idea. From what I see in my customer  
> base, most companies are very averse to JVM and application server  
> upgrades and there are hardly any production JDK 6 deployments that  
> I see right now. In fact, just a handful of customers have barely  
> upgraded to JDK 5/Java EE 5. I think the CDI RI should remain at the  
> Java EE 5/JDK 5 level. It would make CDI a much easier sell than  
> telling customers they must upgrade to use it, especially in this  
> economic climate.
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
> Cheers,
> Reza
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Independent Consultant
> Author, EJB 3 in Action
> Expert Group Member, Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1
> Resin EJB 3.1 Lite Container Lead
>
>
> Pete Muir wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to gather some feedback on whether everyone is happy if we  
>> make  Java 6 a requirement for Web Beans. This will simplify the  
>> build  slightly.
>>
>> JBoss 5.2 will require Java 6 (AFAIK), and I assume GlassFish will  
>> do  as well.
>>
>> Anyone got strong opinions either way?
>>
>> Pete
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