[ome-devel] Opinions on Java 5

[Josh Moore]

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Chris Allan wrote:
>>Josh, could you elucidate the difficulties with OS X 10.4 please.

Apparently, Sheldon's and my worries from last night (that there was no
javac in 10.4) are mislead. However, Chris could you post exactly what
it takes to have 10.4 up to snuff on Java 5?

i.e.
> and requires a tiny bit of tweaking to be made the default (we're
> currently using it for our development). You can find more information
> about the state of the Java 5 JDK and Java on OS X in general here:


>>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.
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> So, I think we will definitely not want a Java 1.5 reqirement on the
> client side just yet. That said, if you're on Windows you cannot get
> security or bugfix automatic updates for 1.4 anymore anyway. :)

Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. But does this leave us more "yes" or more "no"
on server-side Java 5?

~j
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