[ome-devel] Opinions on Java 5

[Erik Brauner]

Josh, could you elucidate the difficulties with OS X 10.4 please.

We are in the process of upgrading to Tiger partially because of the 
Java 1.5/Tomcat 5 incompatibility so I'm curious.
Assuming that OS X development isn't an issue, then I personally 
wouldn't have  a problem with using Java 1.5.
I think they did a great job of choosing new features (the new looping 
syntax is worth the price of admission IMHO).
The big catch is we would probably want to avoid 1.5 dependencies in 
anything that might end up client side as I don't
see browser support coming too quickly.

-Erik

On Aug 18, 2005, at 4:10 AM, Josh Moore wrote:

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> Seems like I haven't started a good heated discussion in a while so
> anyone got an opinion:
>
> 	Does it make sense to use Java 5 on the server side?
>
> This ties in to the "Explorations of alternative architectures for
> remote clients" thread. The code I've written currently has dependency
> on Java 5 _for the server side_.
>
> However, this makes server development on OS X 10.3 impossible and on
> 10.4 apparently difficult. It also complicates installation, at least
> for most people at the moment. (Java 5 uptake has been relatively 
> slow.)
>
> The pros of using it are:	
>  - generics
>  - a few API methods and non-thread safe objects
>    (StringBuilder rather than StringBuffer, etc.)
>  - possible use of annotations (e.g. http://annotations.hibernate.org/)
>  - ...
>
> The performance gain doesn't really count because one can use the new
> JDK but still compile for JRE>=1.4 (or maybe even 1.3)
>
> However (again) if we don't do it now, we'll need to do a "port" at
> sometime in the future.
>
> Ho hum.
>
> Any thoughts?
>   Josh.
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